Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said. This means that having strong social ...

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Nicole Karlis explains the cutting-edge science of generosity and the benefits of altruism for building resilience and ...

As much as you might not want to believe it, service and altruism are at the heart of a loving community and, luckily, as long as a community is defined by the people who are in it, so too is your ...

That’s why, as chief joyologist at Tito’s Handmade Vodka—seriously, that’s her real job title—she strives to incorporate the principles of altruism into all aspects of the company’s ...

Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform good deeds -- affects our health, even our longevity. Acts of heroism are one form of altruism -- as we saw on 9/11 ...

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

They are united in their altruism: they are motivated by the joy of helping create families. And almost as soon as they’ve delivered one child, they are signing up again to have another.