Your heart may be in the right place, but are your good deeds wreaking havoc? (Photo: Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Health/Getty Images) Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children ...

Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you ...

Effective altruism, which started as a small movement at Oxford University over a decade ago, is an influential and controversial philosophy backed by billionaires—including Facebook co-founder Dustin ...

In order to be more appealing to more people, effective altruism adopts an individualistic consumerist frame which cannot help but foreclose political means of solving problems. (Mykola Sosiukin / ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have long witnessed altruism in the animal kingdom, but a new study finds not all acts ...

How to achieve the most good in the world is a question that should occupy all our imaginations: a response to Lisa Herzog. Lisa Herzog’s recent article for OpenDemocracy presents several arguments ...

Akshat Jain is a writer, columnist, novelist, blogger, and a research scholar. He has authored books and wrote many articles, white papers on different ideas and genres. Altruism refers to the ...

Generosity and solidarity towards one's own may have emerged only in combination with hostility towards outsiders, says Samuel Bowles. Groups of fire ants, chimpanzees, meerkats and other animals ...