Heroes take a personal risk for the common good. Some people may just be born with the personality traits of a hero – but ...

Neuroscientist Abigail Marsh on extraordinary altruism—people who risk their lives to help strangers—and its opposite: psychopathy, little or no capacity for empathy. When she was 19 years old, a ...

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of ...

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." —Martin Luther King, Jr. "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1971, the philosophy department at Oxford University was confronted with an unusual student. One of the few vegetarians on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own ...

A little after six o’clock in the evening on April 15, 2019, the Monday before Easter, while Mass was being celebrated, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris caught fire. Incompetent security staff ...

In a recent piece for the New York Times, atheist utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer placidly explained the value of voluntary assisted suicide beyond the usual requisite medical conditions. His ...

Reprinted from "Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis" by Nicole Karlis, courtesy of University of California Press ...

Financial incentives can distort physicians' treatment decisions, fueling healthcare spending. Altruism, a core element of medical professionalism, may counteract these distortions. We link altruism ...

A recent study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science examined whether sexual orientation influences the desirability of altruism in a potential romantic partner. The researchers found that ...