Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall as head of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX has dragged a reluctant co-star into the spotlight — effective altruism. As an ardent advocate of the movement, Bankman-Fried ...

Stephen Post, a former happiness researcher at Case Western Reserve University who is now the director of the Center for Medical Humanities at Stony Brook University in New York, has done a number of ...

Can we reimagine altruism as a creative communal process, blending with others' feelings and working together selflessly to ...

George Bailey dove into icy water to save an angel—and saved himself. Research explains why: Altruism activates the brain's spiritual network, especially when we are in despair.

It has been 145 years since Charles Darwin developed the theory of natural selection and coined the term “survival of the fittest.” Since then, it has become a household phrase, but that does not mean ...