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

Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

Realizing that, with President Trump just turning 79 and completing his second term at 82, he deserves credit for living his diminishing time as a human piñata absorbing constant and often spurious ...

Gates is admirable to dedicate his fortune to helping others across the globe, but we should think twice before committing taxpayers’ money.

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality, ...

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 ...

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.

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are fundamentally self-interested, recent research suggests otherwise: ...

— The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically (Yale University Press, 2015) by Peter Singer. Related Reading. THE MOST GOOD YOU CAN DO by Peter Singer; ...