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

In some ways, aging is like baseball. That is, as each inning has the same three outs and each trip around the sun always takes 365 days, over time, the compounding importance of end-of-game outs and ...

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 ...

A measure in New York state offers tax credits to living organ donors. That's reignited one of medicine’s most contentious ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In Theory: Recent study questions religion’s role in altruism. In a new study, children who were from secular families were more likely to share than children from religious families.

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have long witnessed altruism in the animal kingdom, but a new study finds not ...