Health Check - Pure kindness
What can the latest research tell us about whether there is any such thing as pure kindness? Claudia Hammond meets a man who has done an exceptionally altruistic act for someone who was seriously ill. What prompts acts of kindness like this? Specialists from the fields of psychology and neuroscience unpick the evidence.
Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2022.
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