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This report details out interventions and aspects that pertain to other people for improving happiness levels. Sections of the report:

• Caring and sharing: global analysis of happiness and kindness
• Sharing meals with others: how sharing meals supports happiness and social connections
• Living with others: how household size and family bonds relate to happiness
• Connecting with others: how social connections improve the happiness of young adults
• Supporting others: how prosocial behaviour reduces deaths of despair
• Trusting others: how unhappiness and social distrust explain populism
• Giving to others: how to convert your money into greater happiness for others </aside>

Key concepts from the report

• Our wellbeing depends on our perceptions of others’ benevolence, as well as their actual benevolence. Since we underestimate the kindness of others, our well-being can be improved by receiving information about their true benevolence
• Agency matters in acts of kindness - Untied foreign aid is positively related to national happiness in the donor countries. But, on average, countries with high refugee shares are less happy, since refugee flows are more often based on location than invitation

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Quotes from the report

Like ‘mercy’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, caring is “twice-blessed” — it blesses those who give and those who receive.