What is generosity? Intuitively, we know when an act is generous, and when it’s not. But try to nail down the boundaries of generosity, and things get slippery. Just ask Peter Blake, an associate professor of psychology at Boston University, who has been studying generosity in children for more than a decade. Even he struggles to define it.
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Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a woman with a vast imagination. She’s capable of imagining changes of heart that many would dismiss as impossible. She can imagine people who have committed terrible atrocities, and the people they have hurt, turning toward each other instead of turning away. But she’s realistic, too.
