Gaun Gyi, the village youth leader, is full of altruism and enthusiastically helps with all matters benefiting the villa | ...

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

What if purpose isn’t about helping others first—but helping yourself? Discover why selfish purpose might be the most ...

Recent economic studies confirm, encouragingly, that a career in medicine tends to attract people of above-average altruism and conscientiousness, as well as ability.

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

Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they ...

Speaking personally, effective altruism has been the single most important factor in my decision to work in global health policy. As an advocate for global health legislation in Washington D.C., ...

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 ...

David Zaslav may have saved Turner Classic Movies. TCM seems as strong as ever under his leadership, and he's ensured his ...

Effective altruism, a 21st-century movement that encourages individuals to do the most good by donating to cost-effective causes, has been damaged by the collapse of FTX, which had funneled game ...

Regarding Andy Kessler’s “‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither” (Inside View, July 25): Effective altruism begins with a simple question: “How does one do the most good?” At its heart ...

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be ...