Be Kind – Today, we come across a lot of bad news. We sometimes even wonder if many people have forgotten how to do good and be kind. Here is something to re-affirm your faith.

A recent scientific study has shown that most people generally want to help each other (even strangers). They want to do it even if it costs something or is unsuitable for them.

The study was conducted by researchers at Ohio State University, US. The study involved more than 700 people and was conducted online.

How was the study conducted?

• The researchers wanted to learn more about people who help others.
• This means that you do something for someone else even though it costs you.
• Scientists had already found that there are four things that make people want to do something good for someone else.
  • The first two are to repay kindness given to you and to be moved by the good deeds of others.
  • The other two are being kind in hopes of getting something in return and doing something nice to “pay kindness forward.”

Be Kind Experiment!

• In the study, the people who took part had to decide how much of a “gift” of 10 points to give to other people. Each point costs money to give.
• Then, the researchers made different situations that included one or all of the four motivators (given above).
• All of the motivations work, as the tests showed.
• No one reason is more important than the other.
• They give the giver different reasons to give, even if it costs them. For example, a person can be just as kind to a third person as he or she is to the person who did something nice for them.

Let’s have a look at this meaningful book “Be Kind” by author Pat Zietlow Miler and illustrator Jen Hill.

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