Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you ...

Guest Opinion. Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Animals helping others of their own species makes sense to perpetuate the species or help continue their own ...

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a memory of Steven Pinker’s account of altruism in his seminal book “How the mind works” as I was reviewing my own forthcoming work on philosophy and psychology. Each ...

The most common form of helping found in the animal world - including the human world - is the helping of kin (Hamilton, 1964). In other words, people tend to help those with whom they share large ...

Prosocial behaviors are often seen as being compelled by a number of factors including egoistic reasons (doing things to improve one's self-image), reciprocal benefits (doing something nice for ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...