Having children led Elissa Strauss to explore what it means to care, and whether we can expand the care we have for our kids to others.

Psychologists like Abigail Marsh believe the answer is no. Instead, she says neuroscientists who study altruism believe that selflessness is actually hard-wired into the human brain. The idea is ...

In the last few years, researchers have looked at the so-called helper's high and its effects on the human body. Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform ...

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic ...

Human beings' propensity to help total strangers ... Food sharing was the least popular form of altruism, perhaps because it can come at a cost to the bonobo, who has no guarantee the recipient ...

Altruism among strangers ... Fight or flight refers to the human body’s built-in response to a perceived threat: It prepares the body to either face danger or quickly run from it.

Both chimpanzees and humans have a dark side, but the human version is far more powerful and destructive. If you are younger ...

But this isn't just about my company. It's about a broader movement in the corporate world—a shift towards meaningful ...

It may even motivate a person to donate an organ to a stranger. As transplant psychiatrists who evaluate potential donors for ...