A 2020 study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that extreme selflessness, known as “pathological altruism,” can have harmful consequences. This occurs when someone’s desire to help ...

Research suggests that children are more generous when they give voluntarily. Can a simple set of 36 questions build love and intimacy? We explore the science behind how the questions we ask and 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 ...

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 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 ...

Created with Sketch. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers proposed a number of theories on evolutionary psychology, including why we engage in reciprocal altruism, the nature of sex differences ...

“Dr. Manpal Singh Bhogal (my co-author on this paper) gave a lecture, giving a broad overview of evolutionary psychology. During the session, mate choice was discussed and particularly altruism.

This type of unselfish behaviour is called altruism. Altruism may be common between individuals who are related (kin). The donor will benefit in terms of the increased chances of survival of ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.

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.