The need for assistance remains in Lebanon’s capital, so a team of volunteers gathered hundreds of pounds of medical supplies. Thousands of masks, face shields, and safety goggles. Hundreds of […]
Pulling from the empirically based insights covered in her course Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, Cassie Mogilner Holmes offers tips to stay a bit happier during these […]
Professors Akihiro Nishi and Michael Irwin published a paper entitled, Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism, regarding clinical evidence suggesting that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation […]
Safiya U. Noble is an associate professor at UCLA, co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and a faculty advisor to the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. She is […]
We at the Bedari Kindness Institute mourn the death of George Floyd and express our deepest condolences to the Floyd family and all his relations. The Bedari Kindness Institute strongly […]
We at the Bedari Kindness Institute mourn the death of George Floyd and express our deepest condolences to the Floyd family and all his relations. The Bedari Kindness Institute strongly […]
Daniel Fessler, Anthropologist and Director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, discusses how an understanding of humanity’s past and present can help us to meet the personal, social, and political […]
In an opinion piece that was published today on CNN.com, UCLA sociology professors, Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Jacob G. Foster, and Dr. Jennie E. Brand, recommend using the more accurate term […]
Daniel Fessler, Director of the Bedari Kindness Institute, tells Christiane Amanpour how being kind to others can lower your blood pressure and lessen depression. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/01/10/kindness-mental-health-ucla-daniel-fessler.cnn
There are really exciting things happening in the world of kindness research. UCLA recently established the Bedari Kindness Institute, where experts will work on promoting a more humane world and […]