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

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The ongoing collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire will have innumerable victims. One of the most important may be “effective altruism,” Bankman-Fried’s beloved philanthropic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...