Prof. Daniel Fessler to be first director of the $20million UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

Founded by philanthropists Jennifer and Matthew C. Harris, the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute is the world’s first interdisciplinary research institute whose mission is to spread kindness and promote a more humane world. Anthropology Professor Daniel Fessler will be its first director. Prof. Fessler is an evolutionary anthropologist whose research has investigated, in part, emotions, cooperation, morality, altruism, and laughter.UCLA Newsroom articleLA Times article