Do acts of kindness improve the well-being of the actor? Recent advances in the
behavioural sciences have provided a number of explanations of human social, cooperative …

Highlights•Positive feelings reinforce prosocial behavior.•Positive feelings, such as
happiness, predict prosocial behavior.•Engaging in prosocial behavior leads to positive …

BackgroundOur aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a coronavirus 2019
(COVID-19) vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and, principally …

When it comes to the pursuit of happiness, popular culture encourages a focus on oneself.
By contrast, substantial evidence suggests that what consistently makes people happy is …

Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater
happiness than spending money on oneself (eg, Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These …

Lay intuitions suggest that the ability to share, celebrate, and enjoy others' positive emotions–
a phenomenon we term positive empathy–bolsters individual well‐being and relationship …

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human
beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to …

Although developmental psychologists traditionally explore morality from a learning and
development perspective, some aspects of the human moral sense may be built-in, having …

Using samples from Canada (N= 1220) and the United States (N= 1001), we examined how
performing a variety of pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) predicted life satisfaction …

Although a great deal of research has shown that people with more money are somewhat
happier than are people with less money, our research demonstrates that how people spend …