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
Topics: Decision-Making Fairness Generosity Reputation
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
Contrary to Popular Psychological Theory, Believers in Free Will Were No More Generous or Honest
Across all four studies, people who believed more strongly in free will were no more generous (if anything there was a trend in the other direction, toward less generosity), and cheated just as often.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Free Will Generosity Honesty Morality
Should You Tell Everyone They’re Honest?
People try to live up to their labels.
Nautilus
Topics: Compassion Ethics Generosity Honesty Morality
Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations
What’s intriguing about anonymous giving, and other behaviors apparently designed to obscure good traits and acts, like modesty, is that it’s “hard to reconcile with standard evolutionary accounts of pro-social behavior,” the researchers write.
Topics: Altruism Cooperation Generosity Martin Nowak Reputation Social Behavior
People Choose Between Money or Puppies
Do people feel more inspired to be generous when they see other people being generous with them?
SoulPancake
Topics: Generosity
How Generosity Might Benefit Our Relationships
Do you think you give love generously? Does being generous in your relationships make for a happier relationship?
Why Good People Turn Bad Online
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies.
Mosaic
Topics: Cooperation Generosity Morality Social Behavior Social Networks
More on the Science of Generosity
What feelings are more likely to inspire you to be generous?
Topics: Awe Generosity
Should You Broadcast Your Charitable Side?
Are people viewed as more virtuous when they publicize their good deeds to others?
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Altruism Generosity Reputation
The Science of Generosity
How generosity affects our happiness, relationships, and decisions.
Topics: Attraction Generosity
Could a More Individualistic World Also Be a More Altruistic One?
Equating individualism with selfishness may be a mistake: Some of the world’s wealthiest and most individualistic countries are some of the most altruistic, says Abigail Marsh.
13.7: Cosmos & Culture, NPR
How Feats of Endurance Cement Social Bonds
The links between pain, risk, and togetherness.
Erasmus, The Economist
Topics: Bonding Generosity Ritual
Help You Help Me
Reputation is the oil that lubricates social interactions.
Topics: Altruism Generosity
Five Ways Music Can Make You a Better Person
Can listening to music change your behavior for the better?
Greater Good
Topics: Bonding Cooperation Empathy Generosity Happiness
Why Doing Good Is Good for the Do-Gooder
Volunteering is linked to health benefits including lower blood pressure and decreased mortality rates.
Well, The New York Times
Topics: Compassion Generosity Gratitude Purpose
Americans Are Giving Less To Charity Than They Were A Decade Ago
American generosity is on something of a downward trend.
Fast Company
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