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

Wade has lived on the North Coast since 1978. She taught sociology, psychology, women’s studies and social work at the College of the Redwoods and Cal Poly Humboldt for over 30 years.

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 ...

Altruism is a key component of medical professionalism that underlies the physician's role as a representative agent for patients. However, physician behavior can be influenced when private gains ...

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

It’s an established fact that good guys are contagious. Get a group of good men together, and they will change their community and the world. A good guy has integrity and character. Simply put, a good ...

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. When you're done, you'll get your score, learn ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

However, existing studies on altruism and attraction have predominantly focused on heterosexual participants, leaving questions about how these findings apply to same-sex relationships.

Scientists are searching to understand just how altruism -- the wish to perform good deeds -- affects our health, even our longevity. Acts of heroism are one form of altruism -- as we saw on 9/11 ...