Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic
Hollywood tells us humans are prone to lose all rationality in a disaster, looting and trampling one another. But that’s not giving our brains any credit.
WIRED
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making Rationality Resilience Social Inequality
Social Distancing Prevents Infections, But It Can Have Unintended Consequences
Past research sheds light on the potential impacts of isolation.
Science
Topics: Altruism Loneliness Optimism Resilience
Altruistic Behaviour Plays an Important Role in Human Cognitive Development
Sharing food by infants might be a building block to altruistic giving, a behavior unique to humans.
Nature Research
Topics: Altruism Human Uniqueness Social Behavior Social Cognition
Social Experience Predicts Infant Altruism, and Points to a Science of Cultural Learning
Rodolfo Barragan and Andrew Meltzoff discuss their findings about human infant behavior.
Topics: Altruism Social Behavior Social Cognition
The Surprising Altruism of Babies
Infants will give away food to a stranger even when they’re hungry, a new psychology study finds.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism
Parrots Show Off Selfless Behavior
A series of experiments demonstrated that African grey parrots had something like social intelligence in addition to their cleverness.
The New York Times
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies
Why You Should Give Your Money Away Today
Understanding what motivates charitable giving could inspire us all to be more generous.
Topics: Altruism Generosity Social Networks
Humans Are Wired for Goodness
We’re not as bad as the headlines make us out to be.
Nautilus
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Group Conflict Social Behavior Tribalism
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.
Topics: Altruism Compassion Cooperation
Edward O. Wilson on the Evolution of Social Behaviors
Here, he explains the relevance of evolved insect behaviors to human nature.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Cooperation Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolutionary Theory Social Behavior
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.
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
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