03-20-2025, 05:26 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/strangers-twi...s-13332431
Strangers are about twice as kind as people think, according to a UN-backed report on global happiness.
Researchers for the World Happiness Report used lost wallets as an experiment to measure people's expectations versus reality when it came to the kindness of strangers.
They found that people returned lost wallets at double the rate members of the public thought they would.
Believing in the kindness of strangers also had a much bigger impact on happiness than previously thought.
It even had a bigger impact on happiness than actual or expected harm.
Doesn't surprise me, to be honest. When I was young, we all had "Don't trust strangers" drummed into us (and for good reason: some of the less savoury ones are genuinely dangerous). But of course, most of them are good people (or at least normal people!)
And in any case, it is a relief to have a study that confirms this
.
Strangers are about twice as kind as people think, according to a UN-backed report on global happiness.
Researchers for the World Happiness Report used lost wallets as an experiment to measure people's expectations versus reality when it came to the kindness of strangers.
They found that people returned lost wallets at double the rate members of the public thought they would.
Believing in the kindness of strangers also had a much bigger impact on happiness than previously thought.
It even had a bigger impact on happiness than actual or expected harm.
Doesn't surprise me, to be honest. When I was young, we all had "Don't trust strangers" drummed into us (and for good reason: some of the less savoury ones are genuinely dangerous). But of course, most of them are good people (or at least normal people!)
And in any case, it is a relief to have a study that confirms this
.
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