Nice guys not only finish last, they wind up pulverized like everyone else below a certain tax bracket, no matter their dedication toward humanity.

You might be quick to think that is the truth. but I think the answer is more nuanced than that. Sure, some girls may want someone who is more domineering, but I think part of the reason nice guys ...

Compare that to some of the other guys in the picture, ones who call to see how my day was, mail me magazine clippings to make me laugh, always make plans to hang out, and you might call me crazy.

One reason nice guys and gals tend to finish in the upper quartiles is that, as 19th-century British historian Lord Acton put it, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” People who ...

Historian Barbara Taylor and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips don’t believe that nice people finish last. In their new book, On Kindness, the authors employ history, social theory and psychoanalysis ...