From the Brigham Young University press release: Tis the season for helping at a soup kitchen, caroling at a care facility or shoveling a neighbor’s driveway. While those gifts of… Read more »
From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: Altruistic people are said to be “kind hearted” — and new research published in the journal Scientific Reports shows that generous people really are more… Read more »
From the Duke University press release: A passer-by drops something and you spring to pick it up. Or maybe you hold the door for someone behind you. Such acts of… Read more »
From the University of Toronto press release: A study by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto found that four to six-year-olds… Read more »
From the Universität Bonn press release: How can xenophobia be reduced and altruism strengthened? Researchers at University Hospital Bonn have shown in a new study that the bonding hormone oxytocin together… Read more »
From the University of Zürich press release: Generosity makes people happier, even if they are only a little generous. People who act solely out of self-interest are less happy. Merely… Read more »
From the University of Royal Holloway London press release: Research published in the British Journal of Psychology has found that parents who want their children to have prosocial values are the… Read more »
From the Duke University press release: It’s a classic conundrum: while rushing to get to an important meeting or appointment on time, you spot a stranger in distress. How do… Read more »
From the National University of Singapore press release: People tend to become more generous as they age. This certainly holds true when it comes to helping strangers, according to a… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: If humans are primarily motivated by self-interest, as traditional economic theory claims, why do we sometimes perform acts of generosity that don’t yield us any… Read more »
