Gratitude and nature each enhance well-being. Together, they create a powerful, science-backed path to restoring attention, ...

New research shows that people often feel worse when telling others about their good deeds than when keeping them private or discussing personal achievements.

For most people, helping others is intrinsically rewarding because of the release of dopamine. This makes the behavior self-reinforcing.

If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant,” Singer argues, “we ought, morally, to do it.” This is the idea behind ...

Prosociality refers to behaviours that are intended to benefit others, such as caring, sharing, donating, helping, and volunteering. They are altruistic if there are no expectations of benefits to ...

Humans are naturally cooperative creatures. The ability of people to dominate other life forms on the planet, to produce a built environment structured to their needs, to ensure food and water supply, ...