Nominations are being sought for the Jennifer Larson Healthcare Hero Award, which honors individuals in Stanislaus and Merced ...

After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

The ripple effect of his act continues to change lives. Since his surgery, 150 people, including Goldberg, have donated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.

Nine months after effective altruism advocate Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud, Peter Singer and Alice Crary debated its merits.

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