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
The Dictator Game
Why is the world full of generous people and kind acts?
The Self Illusion, Psychology Today
Topics: Altruism Generosity
How to Make the Most Out of Not Having Enough
Today, people regularly feel like they don’t have enough — not enough time, not enough money, not enough followers on Instagram. Can these everyday experiences of scarcity actually have positive consequences?
TEDxNashville
Topics: Generosity
Giving Feels Good, Even for Criminals
Investigating whether ex-offenders experience greater happiness from spending money on others than from spending money on themselves.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Generosity Happiness
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
How to Give Away Your Cake and Eat It Too
When people’s interests come into conflict with those of others, the freedom to choose sometimes creates a conflict between being seen as generous and kind versus getting what one wants.
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness Generosity Reputation
Helping Others Makes Us Happier — But It Matters How We Do It
Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there’s a catch: it matters how we help.
TED2019
What Do People Think Is the Best Way to Give Charity?
New studies explore moral judgments about donors.
Ulterior Motives, Psychology Today
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Morality
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
Why It’s So Hard to Get People to Care About Mass Suffering
When the number of victims in a tragedy increases, our empathy decreases.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Compassion Decision-Making Emotion Empathy Generosity
Want to Raise Generous Kids? Here’s How
Parents can’t just assume their children will become giving people. They have to work at it.
The Washington Post
Topics: Education Generosity
When You’re Grateful, Your Brain Becomes More Charitable
How does being thankful about things in your own life relate to any selfless concern you may have about the well-being of others? A neuroscientist explores the gratitude/altruism connection.
The Conversation
Topics: Altruism Generosity Gratitude
Want to Make People Act More Generously? Try This Simple Mind Trick
If people think they’re being (metaphorically) watched, it makes them donate more.
Fast Company
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Reputation
When Water Is Scarce We’re Willing to Share What We Really Need
People may be more willing to share scarce resources they really need than apocalyptic Hollywood movies may suggest.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Decision-Making Empathy Fairness Generosity
Would You Behave Cooperatively If Nobody Was Watching?
New research suggests that cooperation may be a reversible habit.
Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Social Behavior
Altruists Make More Money and Have More Kids
There’s more evidence that selfishness is self-defeating.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Altruism Generosity Wealth
Indonesia’s Tsunami and the Problem of Human Empathy
As the death toll keeps rising, the compassion of faraway observers either can’t — or won’t — keep pace.
The Atlantic
Topics: Compassion Emotion Empathy Generosity
How to Seem More Generous Than You Really Are
If you’re the sort of person who’d prefer to get something out of your generosity, a group of psychologists has the research you’ve been waiting for.
The Cut
Science Proves That Being Nice Is Its Own Reward
Selfless acts of generosity activate the brain’s reward regions, making the warm glow of kindness a very real thing, according to British researchers.
Forbes
Topics: Altruism Decision-Making Generosity
Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape
Studying the behavior of our closest living relatives may help scientists better understand the human impulse for generosity.
The New York Times
Topics: Animal Studies Cooperation Generosity
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