‘Wonderful teenagers helped my son on Halloween’: Readers recall kindness of strangers

BBC News

Readers have told the BBC about strangers’ random acts of kindness, following research that found people underestimated the good intentions of others.

In an experiment by the University of British Columbia, researchers deliberately lost wallets to see how many would be returned. Almost twice as many were handed in than was predicted by people who had been surveyed for the World Happiness Report.