"There's part of me that just wants to perceive it. I want to know what everyone did to help each other, because it's so beautiful and meaningful," she says. "If one person does it, people around them are doing it." She adds: "This is happening thousands and thousands and thousands of times a day"
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In these unprecedented and (in many ways) awful times, it can be difficult to make sense of the world in a way that is fruitful and beneficial
In this special panel discussion, the Wrong Boys, along with friends Breht and Mexie, set out to build on Mr. Rogers advice to “look for the helpers”, and try their best to articulate everything that is deep and meaningful about helping others, as well as being helped
Soccer Jersey Study https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/identity-emergency-intervention-how-social-group-membership
Revolutionary Left Radio’s “Paying Tribute to Radical Voices of Black Liberation” https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/paying-tribute-to-voices-of-black-liberation
Pro-social behavior increases meaning in life http://home.uchicago.edu/~nklein/ProsocialBehaviorIncreasesMeaning.pdf
Pro-social behavior reduces effects of stress https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702615611073
Pro-Social Behavior in Early Life https://positivepsychology.com/prosocial-behavior/
