Your heart may be in the right place, but are your good deeds wreaking havoc? (Photo: Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Health/Getty Images) Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children ...

Centre for Research in Inclusive Education, School of Sociology, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile Research suggests that women, but not men, manifest gender-biased expectations of altruism: ...

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 derives ...

In the typical evolutionary model, the invasion of selfish strategies into a group leads to the dissolution of altruism. Examples include scroungers among foraging groups (3, 4), infanticide of ...

The effective altruism (EA) movement has seen explosive growth within the last decade, resulting in the allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding towards altruistic causes. The movement ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

When confronted by a predator, some members of the red deer species produce a barking sound to alert the rest of the herd and make good their escape. Ground nesting birds like the killdeer draw ...