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 ...

Effective altruism, which started as a small movement at Oxford University over a decade ago, is an influential and controversial philosophy backed by billionaires—including Facebook co-founder Dustin ...

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, ...

Discover how a novel instrument developed by researchers measures altruism and parochialism, shedding light on intergroup ...

Durham, NC — Not all acts of altruism are alike, says a new study. From bees and wasps that die defending their nests, to elephants that cooperate to care for young, a new mathematical model pinpoints ...

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 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” ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

This debate between Frances Coppola and Tim Worstall got me thinking: Which is better, altruism or greed? That probably sounds like a silly question. Altruism, duh! Right? But it's not so simple.

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 ...