After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Recent research that found killer sharks ...

Data from a new study suggest that the nature of pain symptoms among those in chronic pain likely evolved to cultivate ...

The study analyzes how carbon taxes, technology spillovers, and altruistic preferences affect green technology investments in ...

Read an excerpt from The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically (Yale University Press, 2015) by Peter Singer.

It’s one of my favorite Darwin quotes—"He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke"—scribbled furtively in a notebook between visits to the London Zoo in the summer ...

How Altruism Could Help Get You Hired By Anita Hofschneider Aug. 7, 2013 4:07 pm ET Share ...

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself ...

Altruism and the Preschooler The generosity of preschool-age children is found to vary along with their families’ wealth By Charlie Wells Dec. 13, 2015 10:03 pm ET ...

IDEAS The moral failing of ‘effective altruism’ The multibillion-dollar rise and catastrophic fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX stemmed from an idea taken to an absurd — yet predictable ...

Altruism: Between more painful electric shocks and less money, people gladly get zapped -- unless those zaps are being sent to another person, study finds ...

Altruism is defined as the selfless concern for the well-being of others. A noble condition that allows individuals in the fire service to routinely put their lives on the line to protect a stranger.