Your heart may be in the right place, but are your good deeds wreaking havoc? (Photo: Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Health/Getty Images) Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children ...

Can helping others make us healthier? When scientists scanned the brains of people who donated money to charity, they found something surprising: Giving activated the same reward pathways as personal ...

Psychological research is showing that altruism does exist, an understanding that could lead to a more empathetic world.

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself derives ...

How funders undermine their own success. Is your philanthropic practice suffering from delusional altruism? How will you know? Funders may think they’re doing things right when they are, in fact, ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...

You don’t hear so much about effective altruism now that one of its most famous exponents, Sam Bankman-Fried, was found guilty of stealing $8 billion from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange.

Toni Morrison spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012. Her lecture is published here for the first time. On an October morning in 2006, a young man backed his truck into ...

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 all acts ...

If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin. Now researchers are beginning to explore whether parasitic manipulations may spur host behaviors ...

If you believe there is no such thing as altruism, you are in good company. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins writes that we must “try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish” ...

Akshat Jain is a writer, columnist, novelist, blogger, and a research scholar. He has authored books and wrote many articles, white papers on different ideas and genres. Altruism refers to the ...