From to getting his grandma into Björk to the golden years of electroclash, Dale Cornish takes Jennifer Lucy Allan through ...

Empathy, once taken for granted as a virtue, is increasingly viewed through a divided lens. It is questioned, politicized, ...

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Altruism is real and developed because it confers an evolutionary advantage that is ultimately greater than the benefits of selfishness, an international team of mathematicians claims to have ...

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 ...

Altruism value was calculated as respondents’ mean WTP. Results: Among 215 respondents, 54.9% (n = 118) were aged 25 to 44 years and 80.0% (n = 172) were women.

He is also one of the founders of effective altruism — as well as the person who, in 2012, recruited an M.I.T. undergraduate named Sam Bankman-Fried to the effective altruism cause.

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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 ...