What if purpose isn’t about helping others first—but helping yourself? Discover why selfish purpose might be the most ...

This awareness makes me tilt towards a life that optimizes for this. But I also have very altruistic leanings, which could ...

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 ...

That’s how I started to think that altruism and taking care of your community can also be one form of self-care. Another reason that it can be hard to be altruistic right now is because people’s basic ...

Killer whales sharing food with other killer whales is well-documented, but a new study in the Journal of Comparative ...

Last July, an effective altruism-linked group received $4.5 million from FTX to fund the purchase of a Czech castle called Chateau Hostacov. Federico Winer/Ultradistancia for Forbes ...

Gopalakrishnan is one of seven women connected to effective altruism who tell TIME they experienced misconduct ranging from harassment and coercion to sexual assault within the community.

When I asked if altruism could be a way, she said it’s possible because there are a lot of similarities between kindness and curiosity. Both, she said, are an “open posture.” ...

Effective altruism is a social movement that relies on evidence and reasoning to figure out the best ways to help others. Its supporters include major Silicon Valley tech personalities like Elon ...

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are fundamentally self-interested, recent research suggests otherwise: ...

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 ...