Kindness can be contagious, and science backs it up. In two experiments, researchers found that witnessing someone do a good ...

Imagine that you’re approaching your favorite coffee shop, when your eyes are suddenly drawn toward an interaction between two strangers happening just outside its doors. One man sits, leaning against ...

Science backs up what our hearts already know: kindness is contagious, and compassion changes lives. A study found that ...

I was sitting by the indoor lap pool, waiting for a lane to open. (Usually at this pool there are just single swimmers in each lane.) Not more than three minutes passed when a woman in one of the ...

This post was updated Jan. 28 at 11:00 p.m. While people tend to shy away from contagious things, for the Bedari Kindness Institute’s Contagious Kindness Project, they can be something to embrace – ...

There are things in life that are too heavy for words. We don’t know what to say, so we say nothing at all. I know I’ve been guilty of turning away from someone in their time of need because I ...

What if I told you there is a group of people who are going to accomplish 5,000 acts of kindness in just 15 days? Think it can be done? What if I told you most of those people still live in their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Feb. 9 through 13, School District 51 is celebrating Kindness is Contagious Week. "It means the community's coming together ...