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

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

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

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

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

Tal Dooreck Aloni, now studying in Herzliya, lived for a year bartering video services in exchange for food and board with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The settlement between college athletes and the NCAA was supposed to provide at least some temporary structure to financial ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...