Abigail Marsh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, studies extraordinary altruism — people who jump in to rescue strangers in emergencies or donate a kidney to someone ...

What motivates people to donate their time or money to make the world better? Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. ‍Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too narrowly — ...

The research relevant to this article was funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Stylianos Syropoulos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...