Social Conditions to Improve

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Topic areas include (but are not limited to):

· Increasing compassion and kindness

· Promoting healthy relationships

· Enhancing social connectedness

· Promoting healthy marriages and families

· Promoting equity and inclusion; combating gender and racial   

     inequities (and all forms of inequity)

· Combating stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and stigma

· Combating loneliness and isolation (all forms of relationship 

     disconnection)

· Combating bullying and negative effects of ostracism, rejection, and 

     social exclusion

· Promoting cooperation within and between groups

· Reducing conflict within and between groups 

· Increasing prosocial behavior, teamwork, and equity in companies 

     and organizations

· Increasing prosocial, effective leadership (to prevent and combat 

     bias)

· Informing a healthy political process and inter-group cooperation to 

     benefit humanity

· Increasing helping, altruism, perspective-taking, and the provision of 

    social support

· Increasing happiness and life satisfaction

· Combating stumbling blocks to prosocial behavior (e.g., combating 

     conformity, diffusion of responsibility, unethical and blind 

     obedience to authoritative figures, disinformation, preventing 

     depletion of shared resources)

· Preventing sexual harassment and assault

· Increasing healthy emotion-regulation and expression

· Combating aggression and violence

· Promoting healthy decision-making

· Increasing morality and moral behavior

· Promoting a healthy sense of self-worth (self-esteem)

And many other topics researched by social psychologists and relationship scientists