Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to vague symptoms like bloating and pelvic pain, making early ...

Effective altruism is a philosophical movement aimed at maximizing good deeds, ultimately with the goal of separating ...

I used to believe that feeling lost meant I wasn’t doing enough. Being a freshman at USC facilitates consistent feelings of ...

Should organ donors get paid? Most definitely, says Sally Satel, who believes that remedy would close "the enormous chasm ...

Directed by the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, the experiment was successful. After 18 weeks of intensive and uncalled-for good deeds, Beverly's new attitude towards Gloria upheld ...

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 ...

A decade ago, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill, one of the world’s foremost advocates of effective altruism (EA), went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to spread the word.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2016 British study published in Evolutionary Psychology examined how much a man’s level of altruism influences his attractiveness to women. In the study, led by University of Worcester ...

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 ...