From this research, it seems clear that people tend to report preferring altruistic partners. However, preferences do not always translate into real-world mating decisions, and we wanted to know ...

As women’s incomes increased, they became more altruistic, but wealthier men weren’t generally more altruistic than less wealthy ones. (Note that the graph represents relative trends between men and ...

After all, we didn't evolve to play lab games. This raises the possibility that people are maybe not being altruistic in such experiments but are in fact just uncertain or confused and making ...

In his book The Altruistic Brain, Pfaff argues that findings from neuroscience and behavioral science point to a new model of altruism—one that sees altruism not as a response to moral authority, but ...

Painter Jeff Hanson is a young artist with an inner vision that defies his physical limitations. Tracy Smith shows us how he does it: You've got to wonder, looking at these paintings, with their ...

Here’s a discovery that could make secular parents say hallelujah: Children who grow up in nonreligious homes are more generous and altruistic than children from observant families. A series of ...

Some people will warn others to follow the rules, even if it does not affect them. This is known as altruistic punishment, ...

This striking result flies in the face of other studies, which have failed to find altruistic behaviour between chimps. But in a related commentary, Frans de Waal, an international expert of ape ...

Animals experience a different level of cognition, so what drives humans to be altruistic might be different than what influences animals like honeybees to act in ways that appear to be altruistic.

This behavior is considered altruistic because it ultimately benefits the ability of the queen to produce offspring, while the worker bee remains sterile. For honey bees, the queen is typically ...

“We believe that our novel observation meets the definition of an altruistic act,” they write. “The pup benefited from the male retrieving it from being swept out to sea and drowning because ...