Our remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a call to bear witness, look, believe, and act to end that suffering.” — ...

This hyper-rational way of thinking about doing good was called effective altruism, and it was growing into a movement, known as E.A. for short. Some proponents were even opting to pursue ...

It is an act that qualifies as "extraordinary altruism," says Abigail Marsh, who studies altruism as a neuroscientist at Georgetown University. Bruens, it turned out, was a perfect match for the ...

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 ...

By Santura Pegram Most dictionaries, in this instance Merriam-Webster, define altruism (al-tru-ism) as 1: unselfish regard ...

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

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 ...