Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...

The effective altruism movement – finding unusually good ways to help people for maximum benefit, including people not yet born – has drawn attention to funding for long term impact. Is focusing on ...

Altruism is a key component of medical professionalism that underlies the physician's role as a representative agent for patients. However, physician behavior can be influenced when private gains ...

Researchers have delved into the factors associated with all types of online aggression. Much less attention has been paid to online altruism and online prosocial behavior during these stages of life.

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to ...

It’s an established fact that good guys are contagious. Get a group of good men together, and they will change their community and the world. A good guy has integrity and character. Simply put, a good ...

This past weekend I attended the latest Effective Altruism Global conference, which was held in the Bay Area, where I live.

Providing economic, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine is not about charity or altruism on the part of Europe, it is a ...