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Rekindle Your Romance Through Kindness

Tired of riding the emotional roller coaster? Instead of using your partner as a mood ring, use positive personal values to promote relationship satisfaction.

Tired of riding the emotional roller coaster? Instead of using your partner as a mood ring, use positive personal values to promote relationship satisfaction.

Understanding Acts of Kindness

Being kind to others is not only a good deed but its beneficial effects are experienced by the recipient as well as the benefactor.

Being kind to others is not only a good deed but its beneficial effects are experienced by the recipient as well as the benefactor.

Can You Be a Hero?

Risking yourself for the sake of helping a stranger under the right circumstances is the prerequisite of a good society.

Risking yourself for the sake of helping a stranger under the right circumstances is the prerequisite of a good society.

How to Make It Easy for People to Help You

Requesting help can be tough for many people, but, if we ask in the right way, they will get pleasure from supporting us. But first we have to make it easy for them.

Requesting help can be tough for many people, but, if we ask in the right way, they will get pleasure from supporting us. But first we have to make it easy for them.

Do Moral Gains Necessarily Entail Moral Losses?

In some moral situations, acts of generosity in one area entail deprivation in another. But people problematically overextend assumptions that morality is always zero-sum.

In some moral situations, acts of generosity in one area entail deprivation in another. But people problematically overextend assumptions that morality is always zero-sum.

What Does It Mean to Have Empathy?

Teaching empathy involves reading others' emotions, considering their perspective and how it's shaped by their experiences, and offering emotional support.

Teaching empathy involves reading others' emotions, considering their perspective and how it's shaped by their experiences, and offering emotional support.

The Well-Connected Animal

Discover the social networks formed between nonhuman animals. These networks show the complexity, depth, and wonder of life in animal societies.

Discover the social networks formed between nonhuman animals. These networks show the complexity, depth, and wonder of life in animal societies.

Philanthropy: It's More Than Writing Checks

Have you ever wondered why people want to become philanthropists? What more is there to it than writing checks?

Have you ever wondered why people want to become philanthropists? What more is there to it than writing checks?

The Problem With Altruism

Navigating the delicate balance between selflessness and self-interest. From the evolutionary roots of altruism to its modern-day manifestations.

Navigating the delicate balance between selflessness and self-interest. From the evolutionary roots of altruism to its modern-day manifestations.

Why Do I Still Feel Guilty for My Privilege?

Personal Perspective: Despite working for positive change, I still struggle with privilege. If you feel the same, consider these insights.

Personal Perspective: Despite working for positive change, I still struggle with privilege. If you feel the same, consider these insights.

Therapy Is No Replacement for Community

With loneliness on the rise, how can we show up for each other as a community—without crossing the line into trauma dumping?

With loneliness on the rise, how can we show up for each other as a community—without crossing the line into trauma dumping?

Be an Upstander, Not a Bystander

Unlike a bystander, who passively watches events unfold without intervening, an upstander takes action to support fairness and respect. Sometimes that means breaking the rules.

Unlike a bystander, who passively watches events unfold without intervening, an upstander takes action to support fairness and respect. Sometimes that means breaking the rules.

Let’s Celebrate Autism Acceptance Month With Inclusion

Celebrating neurodiversity is not just for schools and therapists. It's about all of us coming together as a community to appreciate all ways of experiencing the world and showing kindness.

Celebrating neurodiversity is not just for schools and therapists. It's about all of us coming together as a community to appreciate all ways of experiencing the world and showing kindness.

3 Questions to Ask Before Judging Others

It can be tempting to judge someone harshly when they appear to cross your boundaries. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself first.

It can be tempting to judge someone harshly when they appear to cross your boundaries. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself first.

Why It’s Healthy to Like Horror

Horror fans might actually be more caring than the average person, new research finds.

Horror fans might actually be more caring than the average person, new research finds.

Easing Individual and Endemic Fear

We are currently experiencing an increase in societal polarization. Mindfulness and empathy can help us bridge the divide.

We are currently experiencing an increase in societal polarization. Mindfulness and empathy can help us bridge the divide.

These Personality Factors Drive Donations in Times of Crisis

What influences donations in the face of crises? New study on individual differences in donations following the Turkey–Syria earthquake in 2023 reveals interesting insights.

What influences donations in the face of crises? New study on individual differences in donations following the Turkey–Syria earthquake in 2023 reveals interesting insights.

5 Ways to Cultivate Mental Health

With a multidimensional understanding of psychological well-being, we can all cultivate mental health.

With a multidimensional understanding of psychological well-being, we can all cultivate mental health.

Don't Want "Spoiled Kids"? Give Them Real Responsibilities

Two-thirds of American parents feel they've spoiled their children. But we know how to avoid that outcome: Train helpfulness in family life, ideally from an early age.

Two-thirds of American parents feel they've spoiled their children. But we know how to avoid that outcome: Train helpfulness in family life, ideally from an early age.

How to Be a Better Gift-Giver to a Partner

Relationships present endless gift-giving opportunities and endless opportunities for disappointment. We can all learn to give better gifts.

Relationships present endless gift-giving opportunities and endless opportunities for disappointment. We can all learn to give better gifts.

Love and Chocolate: Two Ways to Calm and Energize

Loving relationships and eating chocolate deliver common effects, including reducing stress, enhancing health and well-being, and activating similar brain regions.

Loving relationships and eating chocolate deliver common effects, including reducing stress, enhancing health and well-being, and activating similar brain regions.

'It's good because we care." Holybelly, Paris
Affection Economy: How Caring Can Change the World

When was the last time you loved doing hard work? We bet it was because you brought diligence and care to it.

When was the last time you loved doing hard work? We bet it was because you brought diligence and care to it.

Why Helping Other People Also Helps You

Individual sacrifices for the good of the group help a group succeed; this trickles down and benefits the individuals in the group as well.

Individual sacrifices for the good of the group help a group succeed; this trickles down and benefits the individuals in the group as well.

Are Therapists Required to Serve Every Client?

Imagine that a client experiencing panic attacks reaches out to you for counseling. Are you obliged to serve them even if they belong to a group you find offensive?

Imagine that a client experiencing panic attacks reaches out to you for counseling. Are you obliged to serve them even if they belong to a group you find offensive?

A Person With a Face, Unhoused on a Cold Winter Night

Each year, 700 people experiencing homelessness die of cold-related causes. Initiatives to help face backlash. How did the world get so cold and what can we do about it?

Each year, 700 people experiencing homelessness die of cold-related causes. Initiatives to help face backlash. How did the world get so cold and what can we do about it?

Lead Your Child With Love and Kindness

Experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that kindness toward others causes us to be happier, improves our health, and lengthens our lives.

Experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that kindness toward others causes us to be happier, improves our health, and lengthens our lives.