Towards Kindness is an organization that promotes compassion, empathy, and other prosocial interventions worldwide via direct funding and research sponsorship.
Joined May 2022
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🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months
doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-0…
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Does SELF-CARE really work?
1K people did a 2-week intervention
Ps performed 3 🥰KINDNESS🥰 acts/week either TOWARD SELF or OTHERS
1. People LIKED self-kindness > other-kindness...BUT
2. Self-kindness had ⬆️ DEPRESSION, ANXIETY!
3. Other-kindness? ⬇️ dep, anx, + loneliness!
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Major update - list of best charities 2024
We are pleased to announce that the Happier Lives Institute has named the NEPI program one of the most cost-effective charities for increasing global happiness. Check here: happierlivesinstitute.org/gi…
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I’m thrilled to inform you that USAID officially announced our 2024 award for the NEPI intervention, “Adapting a Therapy Approach to Prevent Crime,” to the world. You can find the newsletter announcement here. content.govdelivery.com/acco…
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Great organization, in need of great managers. Few programs change lives more. See my WashPo article about their program's huge impact on crime & violence: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
Are you passionate about applying talk therapy and cash transfer to revolutionize community safety?
We are hiring. Come work with us.
CAREERS - Network For Empowerment Progressive Initiatives Nepi (nepiliberia.org)
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Social encouragement seems to lead to kindness because it can grow your teen's empathy and help them to internalize moral principles based on compassion. @GreaterGoodSC
greatergood.berkeley.edu/art…
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An estimated 1 in every 3 women worldwide has suffered physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Can economic interventions targeted at women help mitigate intimate partner violence? Our new #PolicyInsight looks into the data. j-p.al/pi4
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Evidence from North Carolina suggests strong teacher impacts on future crime among students that are uncorrelated with test scores but tightly linked to effects on suspensions, from @evankrose, Jonathan T. Schellenberg, and Yotam Shem-Tov nber.org/papers/w30274
This week's prosocial study flashback is a 2013 study by Dr. Helen Weng with @healthyminds that showed that just 2 weeks of compassion training resulted in altruistic changes towards a victim, even when participants were not cued to generate compassion. buff.ly/3zxTN6z
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Want to make people around you happy? Here are simple things that cause happiness, but that we don’t do enough as we wrongly think they will be awkward & not appreciated. 🧵
🙏🏻People appreciate gratitude MUCH more than the giver expects & it is less awkward to give than expected
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Believe it not, Americans’ cooperation rate has increased over time!
A meta-analysis of 511 studies (with 63,342 people) finds that cooperation is on the rise and linked to societal wealth, urbanization level, and people living alone (@PaulvanLange) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…
This week's prosocial study flashback looked at @grip_training's program for incarcerated people to stop violent behavior, cultivate mindfulness, achieve emotional intelligence, and understand victim impact; and found significant increases in trust. buff.ly/3PzN80E
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Excited to share new research forthcoming at JPSP @APA_Journals and summarized in today’s @nytimes article. nytimes.com/2022/07/11/well/… @KatzPittBiz @Pitt_Business @PittTweet @Katee_Min
We're excited to sponsor research led by @kimschon into the inspiring @MindUP program dedicated to improving children's well-being, looking at the effects of a new MindUP intervention for educators compared to the existing MindUP program for students. buff.ly/2NM8rfF
This week's prosocial study flashback from 2017 studied the wonderful @RootsofEmpathy program and found significant positive changes in empathy, aggression & prosocial behavior with "an impact somewhat larger than typically observed for ... SEL programs". buff.ly/3yTYyaf
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"Does intergroup contact foster solidarity with the disadvantaged? A longitudinal analysis across seven years"
Open access preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c6r2…
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Schools are seeing a huge rise in disruptive behaviors. Unfortunately, there are grifters out there who are happy to sell behavior management programs to schools that have no evidence behind them. This @samhsagov resource describes programs PROVEN to work: store.samhsa.gov/sites/defau…
A great essay on the value to your well-being from interacting with strangers nytimes.com/2022/06/12/opini…
Also great links to existing research backing this up: 1) Social Interactions and Well-Being: The Surprising Power of Weak Ties
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
2) Overly Shallow?: Miscalibrated Expectations
Create a Barrier to Deeper Conversation apa.org/pubs/journals/releas…