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Kindness: Do It

Stuff You Should Know

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The Emotional Impact of Kindness and Its Observance

This chapter explores how witnessing acts of kindness can trigger emotional responses and activate similar neural pathways in viewers as performing the acts themselves. The conversation highlights the mutual benefits of kindness for both givers and receivers, with amusing hypothetical scenarios about empathy in therapy.

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