2004
Ethics, being human and the soul come to the fore when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds just days before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what we are really made of.
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Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.
Simple ways to be more generous to others.
Virtues such as generosity are complicated. They involve more than just outward behaviour. A person’s underlying thoughts, feelings and motives matter, too.
This paper presents an overview of research on the science of generosity, predominantly focusing on studies from the past 20 years.
In addition to being a deeply embedded characteristic which is correlated with happiness . . . giving also has significant benefits for givers.
Researchers say they’ve discovered that even thinking about doing something generous has real mood-boosting benefits in the brain.
Gratitude and generosity go hand in hand. The more we appreciate our lives, the more we want to give to others. In Radical Generosity, best-selling author M. J. Ryan provides tools for expressing thanks.
Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life.
In the tradition of the bestselling book The One Minute Manager, authors Ken Blanchard and S. Truett Cathy, entrepreneur and founder of Chic-fil-A restaurants, present The Generosity Factor—a parable that demonstrates the virtues of generosity.