Grudges Come Naturally to Kids — Gratitude Must Be Taught
Do children understand the lesson that if you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours? Developmental psychologists suggest they’re more likely to punish bad behavior than they are to reward good deeds.
The Conversation
Topics: Altruism Cognitive Development Cooperation
WeChat Is Running a Natural Experiment in Human Generosity
Altruism is a puzzle for behavioral biologists. Now the largest-ever study of pay-it-forward reciprocity is throwing new light on the phenomenon.
Emerging Technology from the arXiv, MIT Technology Review
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity Social Behavior Social Networks
Gratitude Makes Us Care
When and why gratitude helps us care about other people.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Altruism Gratitude
The Dictator Game
Why is the world full of generous people and kind acts?
The Self Illusion, Psychology Today
Topics: Altruism Generosity
Researchers Study the Minds of People Who Donate Organs to Complete Strangers
The psychology behind those who give their organs to ones they don’t know.
CBS News
Topics: Altruism Empathy
What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around the Globe Can Teach Us About Honesty
Scientists used “lost” wallets to test whether people are more likely to be dishonest when they might profit. The results were puzzling — so they put more money in the wallets.
NPR
Topics: Altruism Honesty
What the World’s Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness
Researchers are turning to a rare genetic condition to explore the mysterious origins of human cooperation.
The Atlantic
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Genes Human Evolution Social Behavior
He Gave Away $30 Million Because It Felt Good
James Doty just may embody the altruism he studies.
Nautilus
Topics: Altruism Compassion Cooperation
In Ecology Studies and Selfless Ants, He Finds Hope for the Future
For more than six decades, the influential biologist Edward O. Wilson has drawn connections between evolution, ecology, and behavior, often sparking controversies inside and outside of science.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Cooperation Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolutionary Theory Social Behavior
Group Selection in Every Way Except Using the Words: A Critique of “The Goodness Paradox” by Richard Wrangham
Richard Wrangham’s new book on the evolution of cooperation gets many things right. But he errs in thinking that he can develop his thesis without invoking group selection.
This View of Life
Topics: Altruism Cooperation David Sloan Wilson Evolutionary Mechanisms Human Evolution Social Behavior
The Anatomy of Empathy
Joel Salinas can literally feel his patients’ pain. But as scientists are learning, there’s more to empathy than just mirroring someone else.
VICE
Topics: Altruism Emotion Empathy
How We Judge Other People’s Generosity — and Why It Matters
When we see a kind act, it might inspire us to be kind — depending on the emotions and judgments we have about it.
Greater Good Magazine
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making Emotion Generosity
Study Shows We’re More Lone Wolves Than Team Players
Results may explain why collective action on climate change and health policy is so difficult.
Scientific American
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making
Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Social Behavior
Empathy Is the Secret Ingredient That Makes Cooperation — and Civilization — Possible
Where do the cooperative skills that hold together human societies come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Evolutionary game theory suggests that empathy is a crucial contributor.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Empathy Morality Reputation Social Behavior Social Contagion
Should Animals, Plants, and Robots Have the Same Rights as You?
How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism Intellectual Humility Morality Rationality Robots Technology
Empathy, Morality, Community, Culture — Apes Have It All
Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Atheism Cooperation Emotion Empathy Fairness Frans de Waal Human Uniqueness Morality Religiosity
How AI Will Rewire Us
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Robots Social Behavior Technology
The Psychology of Heroism
Philip Zimbardo explores whether everyday people can be trained to be saviors.
STANFORD Magazine
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making
Is a More Generous Society Possible?
Generosity helps communities manage risk and cope with disasters. New research untangles the factors that lead people to help neighbors in need.
SAPIENS
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity
Does Taking Pleasure in Giving to Others Make Us Selfish?
Recent research helps explain the warm glow of giving.
For Goodness’ Sake, Psychology Today
Topics: Altruism Generosity Happiness
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