Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall as head of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX has dragged a reluctant co-star into the spotlight — effective altruism. As an ardent advocate of the movement, Bankman-Fried ...

Stephen Post, a former happiness researcher at Case Western Reserve University who is now the director of the Center for Medical Humanities at Stony Brook University in New York, has done a number of ...

Can we reimagine altruism as a creative communal process, blending with others' feelings and working together selflessly to ...

George Bailey dove into icy water to save an angel—and saved himself. Research explains why: Altruism activates the brain's spiritual network, especially when we are in despair.

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our behavior, our dining preferences, and more. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

It has been 145 years since Charles Darwin developed the theory of natural selection and coined the term “survival of the fittest.” Since then, it has become a household phrase, but that does not mean ...

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a memory of Steven Pinker’s account of altruism in his seminal book “How the mind works” as I ...