Psychologists and other experts examine how disasters like the LA wildfires can tap into our own trauma and sense of identity ...

Research suggests that children are more generous when they give voluntarily. Cultivate a sense of original love—a universal connection that nurtures joy, safety, and belonging—with meditation teacher ...

The AI startup has been on a hiring spree, quietly bringing aboard EA philanthropist Holden Karnofsky, as well as Niki Parmar ...

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 ...

Altruism is a key component of medical professionalism that underlies the physician's role as a representative agent for patients. However, physician behavior can be influenced when private gains ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

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 ...

However, existing studies on altruism and attraction have predominantly focused on heterosexual participants, leaving questions about how these findings apply to same-sex relationships.

Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform good deeds -- affects our health, even our longevity. Acts of heroism are one form of altruism -- as we saw on 9/11 ...

Wade has lived on the North Coast since 1978. She taught sociology, psychology, women’s studies and social work at the College of the Redwoods and Cal Poly Humboldt for over 30 years.