Nominations are being sought for the Jennifer Larson Healthcare Hero Award, which honors individuals in Stanislaus and Merced ...

After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

Does stress make us more aggressive or more helpful? New research suggests it does both. This dual effect may drive growing ...

The ripple effect of his act continues to change lives. Since his surgery, 150 people, including Goldberg, have donated ...

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

Altruism may be under threat from the pandering of egoism. However, the egoist’s measure of immediate success, the biggest bang for a buck, does not effectively evaluate programs listed in the ...

We conducted a large-scale field experiment in Granada, Spain, to assess the motivating effect on blood donation of matching each attempt to donate with a charitable contribution pledge for children ...

In some ways, aging is like baseball. That is, as each inning has the same three outs and each trip around the sun always takes 365 days, over time, the compounding importance of end-of-game outs and ...