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Mason and Katie: What if schools taught kindness.

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 Elation: The amazing effect of witnessing Acts of Kindness

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Random acts of Kindness can make kids more Popular

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When someone shoes something kind they are more happy. Being more kind increases happiness.By Owen ,and Dagen

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When someone shoes something kind they are more happy. Children can easily become kinder and more helpful. And that behavior makes them more positive, more accepting and more popular.

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In the article it says that kindness can be shown  by helping people out and this guy in the article let these birds go that were stuck in the cage so he let them free. It relates to our kindness project by helping people out .

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Elation is the effect of kindness the most important part of  being kind is people witnessing your act of kindness. When they do it can cause a chain reaction of people being kind to other people . So one act of kindness can have a really big effect on everybody else. You can do small things like give a packed lunch to a homeless man on the street.  Or you can do big things such as helping a big organization that helps kids that don't have homes to have a good Christmas too.

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Can kindness movements make a difference?

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This article is about how people help the world to be cleaner. Also its about helping others and being nice to one and another and be kind to people. All of this article is about how to help out its not about fame and population or to be rich. Kindness in this article is real not fake.

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Picking up litter. Buying someone in need a coffee. Or just doling out free hugs. There's a growing movement of people doing nice things for strangers, but do they make for a kinder society?

Each week, Elisa Ng trawls the streets of Singapore picking up rubbish discarded by her fellow citizens. She is not searching for treasure hidden in the litter. Her only goal is to leave the city a little cleaner than before.

"I want to encourage other people to pick up a piece of litter every day," she says.

Recently, she chased an errant lorry driver who had thrown a plastic bag from his window. "He looked quite apprehensive and seemed apologetic," she says.

Thankless though the task seems, Ng is just one of many residents of the city who have been inspired by the Singapore Kindness Movement, a government-funded body which aims to promote helpful and courteous behaviour amongst its people.

"It definitely makes a difference," says William Wan, the leader of the movement. "We have changed the way that certain social norms are accepted. People are starting to give up their seats on buses now, which they never used to do."

A similar organisation, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, was founded in Denver, Colorado, in response to the city's "Summer of Violence" in 1993, when dozens of people were killed in gang-related shootings, including several children. One victim of stray gunfire was just 10 months old.

Helping others is often about your own narcissism
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The organisation borrowed the writer Ann Herbert's call for people to "practice random acts of kindness, and senseless acts of beauty".

The phrase has since been popularised on doormats and bumper stickers across the US and encourages Americans to surprise one another with good deeds.

Kelsey Gryniewicz, a director at the foundation, advocates activities such as anonymously leaving hampers of food on neighbours' doorsteps and paying for the person queuing behind you at a coffee shop.

"It's not just about single acts, though," she says. "It's about changing your mentality from day to day."

The World Kindness Movement represents the work of organisations from 23 different countries. "It has gone way past the level of community endeavour," says its secretary general Michael Lloyd-White.

But measuring the impact of these groups is not easy.

Each year, the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) publishes a World Giving Index, which attempts to track certain types of giving behaviour in 146 countries across the globe.

The data is extracted from an annual poll conducted by research firm Gallup and ranks countries according to the proportion of people who have volunteered, helped strangers at random, or donated money to charity in a typical month.

In first position last year was Australia, where a third of the population volunteers each month and two-thirds claim to have helped a stranger and donated money to charity.

Lisa Grinham, from CAF's Australian branch, says that the rise is due to the flooding that hit Queensland and Victoria the year before, pointing out that figures tend to rise in times of national hardship.

Globally, however, the position is very different. "The trend that has been revealed is a disturbing one," says Dr John Law, the chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation. The number of acts of kindness and charity dropped by hundreds of millions last year due to the global recession, he says.

Singapore dropped from 91st to 114th place in the 2012 World Giving Index. The country's own Graciousness Index also indicated that fewer people had experienced "gracious acts" last year.

William Wan of the Singapore Kindness Movement blames the decline on "bread-and-butter issues" such as the rising cost of housing and transport.

In the US, which dropped from first to fifth place in the global index last year, a team of academics is working on a programme of compassion education in schools to try to reverse the decline.

Richard J Davidson from the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks that the level of kindness in society can be improved if children are taught to be more empathetic from an early age.

"Compassion should be regarded as a skill that can be cultivated through training," he says.

The kindness curriculum is currently being taught in 10 schools across Wisconsin. The project is still at the research stage, but "the early signs are promising", he says.

Not everybody is convinced that focussing on compassion in this way is helpful, however.

"We have made altruism a sacred object, so we've been blinded to its deleterious effects," says Barbara Oakley from the University of Oakland, Michigan.

In a new book called Pathological Altruism, she argues against what she sees as a cultural obsession with the notion of kindness.

Making Time

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"There's a misguided view that empathy is a universal solvent. Helping others is often about your own narcissism. What you think people need is often not actually what they need."

Kelsey Gryniewicz doesn't think that the American kindness movement is guilty of that charge, arguing that there are tangible, practical benefits to the activities they recommend.

"It doesn't have to be about cradling people in a bubble of kindness," she says.

In Singapore, William Wan takes a more reflective view. "We must be realistic. We mustn't be naive. Kindness movements can't solve all our problems, but if they can solve some of our problems, why not use them?"

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Picking up litter. Buying someone in need a coffee. Or just doling out free hugs. There's a growing movement of people doing nice things for strangers, but do they make for a kinder society? Each week, Elisa Ng trawls the streets of Singapore picking up rubbish discarded by her fellow citizens.

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This article is about how on the holidays people have a stress moment and and they don't look around so the don't see that if you help others you will have less stress moments and you will feel more relaxed and calm.
This relates to what we are doing in class because it shows how you help and you will feel better . But all you have to do is be kind to your friends and it will be a boomerang that comes back at you so if you are kind they will be kind.
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Stress tends to weigh people down, hindering their ability to celebrate and let loose, even on the holiday season. According to a new study, there is simple and cost-effective way to avert the effects of stress: performing acts of kindness.

Daily activities can sometimes cause stress, posing serious negative impacts on the physical body, emotions and even mental health. Hence, reversing its effects is vital to promote holistic health and overall wellness.

In the study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the researchers found that there is a natural way to help relieve the impact of stress on health, and that is through helping others.

The research, led by Emily Ansell of the Yale University School of Medicine, recruited 77 adults between the ages of 18 and 44 years old. The participants received an automated phone reminder every night for them to answer a daily assessment questionnaire.

Reports of stressful life events each day across aspects such as relationships, work, education, home, finance, health and accidents were recorded. In addition, they also reported showing various helpful behaviors towards others, performing acts of kindness. The consequent different emotions they experienced were also taken note of.

The researchers found that those who performed more acts of kindness throughout the day were less likely to report negative emotions. They were also able to maintain their positive emotions. However, during the days in which they were not able to perform kind acts, the participants reported a decrease in positive emotions in response to daily stressors.

"Our research shows that when we help others we can also help ourselves," Emily Ansell said in a press release.

"Stressful days usually lead us to have a worse mood and poorer mental health, but our findings suggest that if we do small things for others, such as holding a door open for someone, we won't feel as poorly on stressful days," she added.

However, the researchers believe that further studies are needed to analyse the theory's applicability across diverse populations. In the meantime, however, Ansell says that as the holiday season's rush may impose high stress levels to people, the study will help people realize that simple acts of helping others may reduce stress.

"Findings suggest that affiliative behavior may be an important component of coping with stress and indicate that engaging in prosocial behavior might be an effective strategy for reducing the impact of stress on emotional functioning," the researchers concluded in the study.

Photo: Darinka Maja | Flickr

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How kindness can reduce stress is by helping the homeless and giving them food to eat if they are really hungry. Stressful days usually lead us to have a worse mood  and poorer mental health, but our finding suggest that if we do small things for others, such as holding the door open for someone, we won't feel as poorly on stressful days," she added.

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How kindness can reduce stress is by holding a door open for somebody or being kind by giving food or a drink and helping an old lady across the road or help her with her groceries.
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Studies show that people have stress during the holidays decorating. Some people have stress because they don't have a home. How you can reduce stress is by giving someone a drink or hold the door for someone. This relates to our project because this also goes around and spreads.

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In the aftermath of Christmas, a parent could be forgiven for thinking that materialism has trumped human kindness.

Take heart. Children can easily become kinder and more helpful. And that behavior makes them more positive, more accepting and more popular.

At least that's how it worked for fourth- and fifth-graders in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers there have been studying empathy and altruism in schoolchildren for decades.

"How do we decrease bullying, increase empathy and caring for others?" says Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, an applied developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia who helped lead the experiment.

They wanted to see how performing random acts of kindness would influence that. But one measurement thrown into the mix almost as an afterthought - being liked by peers - was the quality most improved by helpful acts.

The researchers asked 9- to 11-year-olds in 19 classrooms to either perform three acts of kindness or visit three places each week (the tourists were the control group).

The acts of kindness were simple. The children gave mom a hug when she was stressed out, shared their lunches, or vacuumed the floor.

After four weeks, the researchers tested the kids and compared the results with tests they'd taken before. All the children had more positive emotions, and were slightly happier.

But the children who performed acts of kindness were much more likely to be accepting of their peers, naming more classmates as children they'd like to spend time with.

"I do think we're on to something," Schonert-Reichl tells Shots. The children were at an age when bullying can be more extreme, she says, and children become more self-conscious. So an increase in peer acceptance could benefit in the classroom and in social life. The study was published online in the journal PLOS One.

Being part of the experiment made kindness intentional. The children had to plan their acts of kindness, and remember to do them. Similar experiments in adults have shown that being actively kind increases happiness, and happier people then become more likely to help others.

Parents don't have to have a Ph.D. to encourage these sorts of simple acts of kindness in children - or in themselves.

"I think of ways to start the New Year, and people making resolutions," says Schonert-Reichl, a former middle school teacher and mother of two boys." Can I do an act of kindness for someone every day?"

Harried parents would feel better, she says, and their children would, too. "They start helping, and they start feeling this is nice." Seeing themselves as the kind of person who helps others could be an identity that then stays with them for the rest of their lives.

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In the aftermath of Christmas, a parent could be forgiven for thinking that materialism has trumped human kindness. Take heart. Children can easily become kinder and more helpful. And that behavior makes them more positive, more accepting and more popular. At least that's how it worked for fourth- and fifth-graders in Vancouver, Canada.

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This is an important lesson for us as we work through our kindness project because it shows how we can influences others around us to show kindness.
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In findings sure to gladden the heart of anyone who's ever wondered whether tiny acts of kindness have larger consequences, researchers have shown that generosity is contagious.

Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single act can influence dozens more.

In a game where selfishness made more sense than cooperation, acts of giving were "tripled over the course of the experiment by other subjects who are directly or indirectly influenced to contribute more," wrote political scientist James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University.

Their findings, published March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are the latest in a series of studies the pair have conducted on the spread of behaviors through social networks.

In other papers, they've described the spread of obesity, loneliness, happiness and smoking. But there was no way to know whether those apparent behavioral contagions were actually just correlations. People who are overweight, for example, might simply tend to befriend other overweight people, or live in an area where high-fat, low-nutrient diets are the norm.

The latest research was designed to identify cause-and-effect links. In it, Fowler and Christakis analyze the results of a so-called public-goods game, in which people were divided into groups of four, given 20 credits each, and asked to secretly decide what to keep for themselves and what to contribute to a common fund. That fund would be multiplied by two-fifths, then divided equally among the group. The best payoff would come if everyone gave all their money - but without knowing what others were doing, it always made sense to keep one's money and skim from the generosity of others.

Only at the end of each game did players find out what the rest of their group had done. The game was run again and again, each time mixing group members and keeping their identities anonymous, so that decisions were never personal.

When one person gave, others in their group tended to be generous during the next two rounds of play. Recipients of their largess became more generous in turn, and so on down the chain. When a punishment round was added - players could spend their own money to reduce the rewards of selfish players - generosity lasted even longer.

"It is often supposed that individuals in experiments like the one described here selfishly seek to maximize their own payoffs," wrote Fowler and Christakis. "The equilibrium prediction is to contribute nothing and to pay nothing to punish noncontributors, but the subjects did not follow this pattern."

According to the the researchers, the explanation lies not in calculations of odds and rewards, but in simple behavioral mimicry: Monkey see, monkey do, human style. When people are irrationally generous, others follow suit.

The network described by Fowler and Christakis doesn't necessarily replicate natural group dynamics, but suggests a general model for how behaviors spread. They suggest that researchers of altruism and cultural evolution study how different group configurations promote or limit the spread of behaviors.

However, the findings aren't just a feel-good story. Selfish behavior spreads easily, too.
Images: 1) Heath Brandon/Flickr.
2) James Fowler. See Also: Citation: "Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks." By James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107 No. 10, March 9, 2010. Brandon Keim's Twitter stream and reportorial outtakes; Wired Science on Twitter. Brandon is currently working on a book about ecological tipping points.

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In findings sure to gladden the heart of anyone who's ever wondered whether tiny acts of kindness have larger consequences, researchers have shown that generosity is contagious. Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single act can influence dozens more.