Bedari Kindness Institute Featured in LA Magazine
UCLA and other schools are studying kindness as an Antidote to a cruel world. This LA Magazine article focuses on the effort to make a fuzzy abstract an academic discipline […]
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World Kindness Day: Good Deeds Have Positive Effects on Mind and Body
Recent articles in Inquirer.net and Malaymail.com, feature the Bedari Kindness Institute and Dean Hunt. Here is an excerpt from one of the articles: If kindness is first and foremost selfless, […]
World Kindness Day Film Screening of The Antidote Documentary
World Kindness Day is Friday, November 13. The Bedari Kindness Institute is hosting a virtual film screening in partnership with The Antidote Movie – a documentary that weaves together stories […]
Vichy’s Family Separation Policy, and Our Own
BKI faculty member, Aliza Luft shares an essay on Scatterplot about the parallels between U.S. immigration practices of child separation and the actions of the Vichy regime during WWII — […]
Dan Fessler’s Interview with the Mentors Radio
Dan Fessler, Faculty Director of the Bedari Kindness Institute, recently talked with Host Tom Loarie from the Mentors Radio, about human nature, culture, and the underestimated power of kindness. Find […]
Kindness in Action: UCLA Health’s Humanitarian Aid to Beirut
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 […]
Staying Happy in Unhappy Times
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 […]
Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism
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 […]
The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech
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 […]
Bedari Kindness Statement on Racial Justice
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 […]
