Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism means helping others without expecting anything in return. Small acts of kindness, like holding doors or ...

Your gut microbiome could be influencing your decisions, especially when it comes to altruistic behavior and fairness. Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, the motherload of which are found ...

A research team developed a new experimental game to explore whether people avoid witnessing selfish behavior to evade punishing others or simply to avoid confronting unfairness. The study found that ...

True altruism is rare behavior in animals, but a new study by Penn State researchers has found that honey bees display this trait. Additionally, they found that an evolutionary battle of genetics may ...

Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Taken together, all these pieces of information are consistent with the idea that there’s a relatively opaque strategic element which surrounds altruistic behavior. While it’s one people might ...

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

Source: Ceremony on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Photo: President of Ukraine, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain The tragic warfare in Gaza and Ukraine ...

Increasing awareness of patients with cancer faced with the choice of whether to participate in a phase I clinical trial. Safety and efficacy of low-dose ...