"I'm trying so hard to be a perfect altruist and just failing because no one is, actually," the Confessions of a Good ...

Our remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a call to bear witness, look, believe, and act to end that suffering.” — ...

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 ...

That's why scientists have taken on the task of figuring out the keys to achieving happiness. They've explored seven strategies based on scientific research that can help people boost their well-being ...

This hyper-rational way of thinking about doing good was called effective altruism, and it was growing into a movement, known as E.A. for short. Some proponents were even opting to pursue ...

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 ...

By Santura Pegram Most dictionaries, in this instance Merriam-Webster, define altruism (al-tru-ism) as 1: unselfish regard ...

It is an act that qualifies as "extraordinary altruism," says Abigail Marsh, who studies altruism as a neuroscientist at Georgetown University. Bruens, it turned out, was a perfect match for the ...

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 $80 ...