Why communities only seem to come together during a crisis, according to science
Psychologists and other experts examine how disasters like the L.A. wildfires can tap into our own trauma and sense of ...
Anthropic hired president Daniela Amodei’s husband to work on the company’s AI safety strategy
The AI startup has been on a hiring spree, quietly bringing aboard EA philanthropist Holden Karnofsky, as well as Niki Parmar ...
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Altruism Definition | What Is Altruism
Research suggests that children are more generous when they give voluntarily. Cultivate a sense of original love—a universal connection that nurtures joy, safety, and belonging—with meditation teacher ...
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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 ...
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Altruism in Birds? Magpies Have Outwitted Scientists by Helping Each Other Remove Tracking Devices
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 ...
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The Role of Physician Altruism in the Physician-Industry Relationship: Evidence from Linking Experimental and Observational Data
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 ...
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Opinion: More than ever, Americans must heed Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for “creative altruism” and reject “selfishness”
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.
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Penny Lane on Effective Altruism and Donating a Kidney to a Stranger
Are you trying to maximize the good that gets done in the world? A: I used to be a lot more, but the effective altruism movement was a very big influence on my life. There was ground that had been ...
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Altruism Quiz
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 ...
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The Science of Good Deeds
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 ...
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‘Conversation on Altruism’ features Nezzie Wade
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.