From: Los Angeles Times
New UCLA institute will study — and spread — kindness
October 16, 2019
A friendly smile. A food pantry donation. Or, a remarkable act of Los Angeles benevolence — allowing a driver to cut in front of you.
Such acts of kindness have a self-serving upside, too, as science has conclusively shown they also make you healthier.
Now UCLA is poised to advance that science with the Wednesday launch of the world’s first interdisciplinary research institute on kindness, which will explore, for instance, how and why being nice to others reduces depression and the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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