Cars are a necessity for many, as public transit is insufficient or inconvenient to get to work across most of the country. Cars are also expensive, which means financing is required by most to ...

This vast and interconnected set of programs funded by taxpayers has been significantly dismantled in just months, nonprofit ...

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

We conducted a large-scale field experiment in Granada, Spain, to assess the motivating effect on blood donation of matching each attempt to donate with a charitable contribution pledge for children ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic needs aren’t being met. So people don ...

Altruism isn’t always convenient, and it does not come with a title or a tangible reward. But if we choose to prioritize giving back, we can undo subconscious egoism while concurrently uplifting our ...

Contrary to Herzog’s assertion that effective altruism approaches social change from the basis of what’s ‘rational’ according to individual preferences, we prioritize coordination and ...

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be ...

Effective altruism, a 21st-century movement that encourages individuals to do the most good by donating to cost-effective causes, has been damaged by the collapse of FTX, which had funneled game ...

The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put ...