A critical condition for cooperation to be sustained in evolutionary models is that, as in formal institutions charged with maintaining social order 4, altruistic punishment ‘fits the crime ...

Altruistic helping -- the act of giving away something desirable, even at a cost to oneself -- is perhaps no more evident than when it comes to food. Human adults often respond to hungry people ...

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 ...

Until now, that is. New research published this week in Science shows that by looking at how different brain regions interact, it is possible to predict whether an altruistic act is motivated by ...

Professor Nava Ashraf’s research on Altruistic capital (in collaboration with Professor Oriana Bandiera) aims to incorporate, within economics and in the broader societal discourse, an understanding ...

Toddlers are innocent and sweet, but are they good? Pint-sized autocrats who wake up at dawn, expect food and drink on demand, say no to everything, and who can kick, scream and bite if they don ...

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 ...

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 ...

We report a chain of 10 kidney transplantations, initiated in July 2007 by a single altruistic donor (i.e., a donor without a designated recipient) and coordinated over a period of 8 months by two ...