Cynics do not believe that people can act in any way other than their own self-interest. Reflecting hostility, cynicism is ...

Here Zaki, who has spent 20 years studying kindness, connection and empathy, talks about the American media's role in creating a more cynical society; why so many people mistake cynicism for ...

But the opposite is true. People who trust others more, who have more faith in people, tend to actually do better on those tests than cynical people. We also find in research that cynicism is not ...