Science uncovers a surprising link between altruism and longevity.

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

In some ways, aging is like baseball. That is, as each inning has the same three outs and each trip around the sun always takes 365 days, over time, the compounding importance of end-of-game outs and ...

Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- One of the most generous people I know, a doctor, denies that there is such a thing as altruism. The absence of altruism in the world does not bother him. On the ...

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality, ...

A measure in New York state offers tax credits to living organ donors. That's reignited one of medicine’s most contentious ethical debates: Should we legalize the sale of human organs?

Altruism is real and developed because it confers an evolutionary advantage that is ultimately greater than the benefits of selfishness, an international team of mathematicians claims to have proved.

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement concerned with finding the most effective ways to make the world a better place, according to Graeme McDonough, a junior on the Effective ...