The Global Kindness Study: Results
- The biggest factor associated with kindness wasn't age or income, but personality.
- People who talk to strangers more often not only observe but receive more kindness themselves.
- Our fears of talking to strangers usually don't live up to reality and people tend to enjoy it more than they expect to.
- When regions of the world were compared, the fear of misinterpretation was lower in the US than in the UK or in countries in Africa.
- In the US, the use of social media was more often given as a barrier to kindness
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