Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — True altruism is rare behavior in animals, but a new study by Penn State researchers has found that honey bees display this trait. Additionally, they found that an evolutionary ...

Beginning again with the proximate question, breastfeeding certainly seems like an altruistic behavior: the mother’s body pays a metabolic cost to create the calorically-rich milk which is then ...

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center, in North Carolina, have found a link between altruistic behavior and activity in an area of the brain associated with the perception of meaning, a ...

Your gut microbiome could be influencing your decisions, especially when it comes to altruistic behavior and fairness. Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, the motherload of which are found ...

Taken together, all these pieces of information are consistent with the idea that there’s a relatively opaque strategic element which surrounds altruistic behavior. While it’s one people might ...

Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism means helping others without expecting anything in return. Small acts of kindness, like holding doors or ...

Learn how the Empathy-Altruism Theory explains why people help others purely out of compassion, even when there’s no personal gain. This psychological concept challenges the idea of selfish motivation ...

In a new study, researchers have found that mice can instinctively exhibit rescue-like behavior toward anesthetized conspecifics—without any prior training or external rewards. The study, published in ...