After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

The concept of altruism has been around for a long time, and for almost as long researchers have argued over the meaning of it. Some have suggested that true altruism doesn't even exist.

The ongoing collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire will have innumerable victims. One of the most important may be “effective altruism,” Bankman-Fried’s beloved philanthropic ...

Altruism and selfishness are 30–50% heritable in man in both Western and non-Western populations. This genetically based variation in altruism and selfishness requires explanation. In non-human ...

Having taught children from all the ages 5 to 12, I am not sure I ever saw true altruism. So let us look at the communities in question, some multicultural and some unicultural.

The countries with more individualistic values are also the countries with higher levels of altruism, according to an upcoming study in the journal Psychological Science.A team of psychologists ...

As Hoelldobler noted, even internally cooperative ant colonies still fight against their neighbors, just as groups of people still fight against one another. But assuming there isn't some limit on ...

Scientists have long witnessed altruism in the animal kingdom, but a new study finds not all acts of altruism are alike. The mathematical model shows how the environment can favor one type of ...