15/05/2019
"Loving Thy Neighbor As Thyself" makes us healthy and happy. Social connectedness, generosity, and gratitude are central to our well-being. A wide range of recent studies have found that prosocial behaviors such as generosity, altruism, compassion, and empathy foster the well-being of all parties involved.
A December 2015 study from the University of Zurich, “How Learning Shapes the Empathic Brain,” found that just a few small acts of generosity by a stranger from an outside group created neurobiological changes in the brain that made individuals more empathetic to all members of the outside group.