Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

Douglas County's "Handouts Don't Help" campaign raises funds for homeless support, encouraging safe donation practices to aid local initiatives.

In some ways, aging is like baseball. That is, as each inning has the same three outs and each trip around the sun always ...

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality, ...

Tal Dooreck Aloni, now studying in Herzliya, lived for a year bartering video services in exchange for food and board with ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic needs aren’t being met. So people don ...

Schwartz’s predecessor at Effective Altruism NYC isn’t at the bar, but I reach him by phone. “I totally looked up to this guy, this motherfucker who I hate now,” he says, of Bankman-Fried.

Effective altruism has captivated Silicon Valley personalities like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, but the philosophy's stature has taken a big hit. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced ...

Altruism may exist in honey bees, which is inherited through their mothers: study A new study suggests not only that honey bees can be altruistic, but that it is a maternal genetic trait ...