Research Hit: Humans Give Unconditional Small Acts of Kindness

Across cultures human beings exhibit an instinct to help others

I thought that one driving premise of economic theory is that human beings are primarily selfish?!

Well, that’s going back a few years - or decades. We know that human beings are very cooperative but some of this cooperation differs between cultures. What’s more a lot of research into cooperation and collaboration looks at big ticket items like sharing food or other resources.

So what did this research look at?