Effective altruism, which started as a small movement at Oxford University over a decade ago, is an influential and controversial philosophy backed by billionaires—including Facebook co-founder Dustin ...

Your heart may be in the right place, but are your good deeds wreaking havoc? (Photo: Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Health/Getty Images) Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children ...

David Sloan Wilson opens his new book, Does Altruism Exist?, with an old conundrum that has animated many late-night dormitory debates: If helping someone gives you pleasure, gains you points for an ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...

On the Thursday, November 13, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: In honor of World Kindness Day — we’ve partnered with the Humankind team at USA TODAY for a deeper exploration on the topic of ...

There’s a great value in being precise when it comes to communication (if you want your message to be understood as you intended it, anyway; when clarity isn’t the goal, by all means, be imprecise).

If you believe there is no such thing as altruism, you are in good company. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins writes that we must “try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish” ...

In “Famine, Affluence, andMorality,”an enormously influentialarticle published in 1972,the philosopher Peter Singerposed the following hypothetical: You arewalking by a shallow pond and see a ...

Altruism, originating from the French word 'altruisme' coined by Auguste Comte, signifies selfless concern for others' welfare. This philosophy emphasizes kindness and empathy, encouraging individuals ...

Eric Grau is President of Olberding Brand Family (OBF) a fourth-generation, family-owned company that brings out the best in brands. Does altruism have a place in business? I would sure like to think ...