The Science of Generosity
Let’s end the year with a moment of gratitude.
Elemental, Medium
Topics: Altruism Empathy Generosity Gratitude
Why Being Kind to Others Is Good for Your Health
While we might all enjoy the warm glow of helping out others or giving up a little of our time for charity, it could be doing us some physical good too.
BBC Future
Topics: Altruism Empathy Longevity
Making Nice
APS Observer
Topics: Altruism David DeSteno Emotion Flourishing Gratitude Happiness Social Relationships
Giving Thanks May Make Your Brain More Altruistic
Neuroscience is revealing a fascinating link between gratitude and generosity.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism Generosity Gratitude
Playing Favorites: When Kindness Toward Some Means Callousness Toward Others
If we do a favor for someone we know, we think we’ve done a good deed. What we don’t tend to ask is: Who have we harmed by treating this person with more kindness than we show toward others?
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Decision-Making Group Identity Joshua Greene Morality
Are Poor People Actually More Generous?
Previous research suggested that lower class individuals are more generous than wealthier people, but recent studies question that conclusion.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Altruism Generosity Social Inequality Wealth
A Universal Human Psychological Response
Researchers, including ASU Regents Professor Joan Silk, gain insight into relationship between punishment, cooperation, and social norms.
ASU Now
Topics: Altruism Cooperation
Cooperation Makes It Happen: Four Leading Scientists Share Their Insights
How science can help us improve our social responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
Medium
Do People Become More Selfless as They Age?
Brain science suggests that seniors care more about the welfare of others than younger folks do.
The Conversation
Topics: Aging Altruism Generosity
Habits of Kindness That Will Endure
Disasters shock us into remembering our shared humanity.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Altruism Compassion Empathy Jamil Zaki
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
Why We Need to Be More Emotional to Save the World
If our species wants to enjoy a long-term future, it might need to tap into the very human qualities of emotion.
Topics: Altruism Awe Cooperation Decision-Making Emotion Empathy Flourishing Rationality
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.
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
Does a Religious Upbringing Promote Generosity or Not?
An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is finally retracted.
Human Flourishing, Psychology Today
Topics: Altruism Flourishing Generosity Religiosity
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
What Makes Someone ‘Generous’?
The virtue of generosity — as opposed to individual acts that could be deemed generous — is surprisingly complex and multifaceted.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Topics: Altruism Empathy Generosity Morality
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