A new analysis of over 90,000 participants shows that personality traits influence how people engage in volunteering and ...

I used to believe that feeling lost meant I wasn’t doing enough. Being a freshman at USC facilitates consistent feelings of ...

Effective altruism is a philosophical movement aimed at maximizing good deeds, ultimately with the goal of separating altruistic acts from emotional assessments.

Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help ...

The women were also told how each man reacted to a scenario that called for altruism. In one scenario, a child is drowning in ...

A new study reveals that mice instinctively display rescue-like behaviors toward anesthetized peers, offering powerful evidence that prosociality may be hardwired in mammals.

A firefighter's altruism was the subject of the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce First Responder of the Month presentation ...

This finding suggests the BLA calibrates altruism based on emotional connections, not promoting or inhibiting it. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) regulates prosocial behaviour, adjusting generosity ...

Given the contrast, voters could easily identify the political leader(s) with altruistic or egoistic personality traits, someone whom they consider worthy of support. While no one can claim to have a ...

The Japanese idiom "gaden insui," written with four kanji characters that combined mean "draw water into one's own rice paddy," denotes self-serving behavior. Its variant, "gaden intetsu," the ...