Sociality, cooperation and “prosocial” behaviors are the foundation of human society (and of the extraordinary development of our brain) and yet, taken individually, people often show huge variation ...

Last week, I went to a big five-star hotel to attend the presentation of the research findings of a Kathmandu-based NGO. In a few hours, ten different people were given the opportunity to express ...

Montreal, Canada, December 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Queendom.com, a pioneer in online personality, career, and IQ assessments, is releasing results of their research on giving. Their findings indicate ...

Are you the type who will bend over backwards for others until it hurts or do you merely look out for #1? Do your actions personify your self-centered or selfless nature? This egoism/altruism test ...

JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: The list of charities seeking donations can seem endless. There are organizations that fight hunger, provide free medical care for children with cancer, or build houses ...

“Love is at the same time the most generous and the most egotistical thing in nature.” —Friedrich Schiller Is romantic love egoistic, as many insist? And if so, is it possible that love also has ...

The heated debate surrounding the German "state Trojan" software for the online monitoring of telecommunication between citizens shows that the concealed observation of our private decisions provokes ...

There once was a time when I was enamored by the philosophy of Ayn Rand. An émigré from the Soviet Union, the influential novelist and founder of the philosophy Objectivism had an enthusiasm for ...

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