What do you see in the picture? What has happened? What do you think this story is about?
A recent study aimed to find out how kind and honest people are so some researchers did a test.
Looking at the picture, what do you think the test was?
A simple wallet experiment was carried out. The test was - if people find a lost wallet in the street, will they keep it and the money in it, or will they return the wallet?
What do you think the researchers expected to happen?
What do you think the results showed?
Are most people today in the world kind and honest or not?
The results of the experiment were that people are twice as likely to return the wallet than keep it.
The results also showed if the wallet had money in, people were even more likely to return it.
Are you surprised?
Why do you think that is?
Researchers say, "People are far too pessimistic about the benevolence of others."
What is pessimism?
What does benevolence mean?
What does this sentence mean?
"In other words, people are much better people than we think."
The researchers link happiness levels to levels of pessimism; "The most social trust we have- believing that people will generally do the decent thing - the higher our happiness level."
Why do you think that is?
"We could all be happier if we knew we could trust people more."
The researchers say believing others are trust-worthy has more effect on a person's individual happiness and mental health than having more money."
Why do you think that is?
What can we learn from this study?
Why is this about No Outsiders? (Think about how a person feels if they have no hope in other people or feel isolated and pessimistic all the time)
Which British value is this about?
No Outsiders: We belong here by Andrew Moffat (scheme of work for primary schools)
Register to be a No Outsiders school (get access to members page with additional resources)
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