Most of us think of kindness as something we do for other people – holding a door, offering a compliment, helping a stranger cross the road.
But research suggests that these small, thoughtful gestures might be doing us a favour as well.
“Kindness can give you this overwhelmingly positive, warm feeling that connects you to the other person,” said Zita Oravecz, a professor of human development and family studies at The Pennsylvania State University, or Penn State, in the United States.
Psychologists even have a name for it: “positivity resonance” – a brief but
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