Why helping others can lead to a more fulfilling life Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help ...

Researchers have identified the basolateral amygdala (BLA) as crucial in regulating prosocial behaviour. Their study showed that individuals with BLA damage acted generously towards close friends but ...

The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism—and why we need it now more than ever. In this major work, Matthieu Ricard presents a global vision based on ...

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 ...

Altruistic preferences and expected specialty choice of U.S. medical students,” measures how medical student altruism affects which field one pursues. The data that measures altruistic preferences was ...

UCL Effective Altruism exists to enable students at UCL to make a positive difference in the world, whether that's by pursuing a high-impact career that tackles a pressing global problem, or through ...