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

Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you ...

Has altruism increased with social complexity and sophistication? Might it actually be driving us towards a kindler, gentler and altogether more successful civilization? And can we engineer our own ...

Altruism might have evolved for fairly selfish reasons, at least in insects. When a warring termite colony loses its king and queen — the only members capable of reproduction — then its survivors ...

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 from ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on Aug. 25, 2022, in Texas. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images One of the ways tech billionaire Elon Musk attracts supporters is the ...

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a memory of Steven Pinker’s account of altruism in his seminal book “How the mind works” as I was reviewing my own forthcoming work on philosophy and psychology. Each ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Greater Good? Are some acts of altruism more effective than others? Philosopher Peter Singer examines the greater good on a global scale, asking how we can ...

Lightweight and sophisticated tracking devices have made it possible to study the behavior of birds in all kinds of useful ways, for example, helping keep them safe from ships or monitoring their ...

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 $80 ...