Psychologists and other experts examine how disasters like the LA wildfires can tap into our own trauma and sense of identity ...

A new study finds that when doctors are focused on patients' needs over profits, patients save money and get better care.

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

Altruism is a key component of medical professionalism that underlies the physician's role as a representative agent for patients. However, physician behavior can be influenced when private gains ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

However, existing studies on altruism and attraction have predominantly focused on heterosexual participants, leaving questions about how these findings apply to same-sex relationships.

Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform good deeds -- affects our health, even our longevity. Acts of heroism are one form of altruism -- as we saw on 9/11 ...

This type of unselfish behaviour is called altruism. Altruism may be common between individuals who are related (kin). The donor will benefit in terms of the increased chances of survival of ...