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 ...

Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help ...

Tour Read.. The Black Voice’s budget proposal was rejected by a 3-5 vote with four abstentions. The committee also voted to reject Effective Altruism’s budget proposal. There was brief debate over ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was 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 ...

Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform good deeds -- affects our health, even our longevity. Acts of heroism are one form of altruism -- as we saw on 9/11 ...