Everyone Thinks Americans Are Selfish. They’re Wrong
Here’s why individualism may be our best trait.
The New York Times
Topics: Altruism Flourishing Generosity Values
Why Are We So Uncharitable to Those Doing Good Deeds?
From veganism to fundraising, psychologists have found acts of altruism often attract mistrust and even anger.
The Guardian
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity Morality Reputation
Animal Adoptions Make No Evolutionary Sense, So Why Do They Happen?
Biologists are puzzled by evidence of animals that care for those from other social groups or even species.
The Conversation
Topics: Altruism Animal Studies Human Uniqueness
Cooperators, Crusaders, and the Complicit: The Trinity of Religious Moral Character
Psychologists have long wondered whether religion makes us more or less moral. The answer is more complicated than it might seem.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Altruism Faith Kurt Gray Morality Tribalism
How to Be an Effective Altruist When Giving to Charities
Give to charities that maximize the impact of your donation, but don’t overlook causes close to your heart.
Los Angeles Times
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making Empathy Joshua Greene Morality Social Behavior
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
Sharing Doesn’t Make You a Sucker. This Scientist Has the Numbers to Prove It
With the Human Generosity Project, Athena Aktipis wants to show that cooperation makes humans stronger.
Popular Science
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity
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
Mask Communication
It turns out getting someone to wear a mask has a lot to do with how you ask, and when, and who does the asking.
Planet Money, NPR
Topics: Altruism Bias Cooperation Reputation
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.
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
How We’re Wired for Goodness
Nicholas Christakis is Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he’s also the director of the Human Nature Lab and co-director of the Institute for Network Science.
On Being
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Social Behavior Social Learning
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
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