Quoting from Islamic, Jewish and Christian texts, rock star Bono called Thursday for the U.S. government to give an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to the world's poor.
In yet another example of the many ways people are helping the victims of the Victorian bushfires, a group has started finding replacement tools for people who have lost their means of making a living.
Has anyone read Axelrod's the evolution of cooperation? Well here's the climax: The "niceys" always beat out the "meanies." That's right!
Total donations to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal now exceed $138 million, with volunteers at one Melbourne call centre saying they have been "overwhelmed" by donations of cars, hay, houses and caravans, some from victims of the fires and even one from a daschund.
The time is upon us where the terms "right" and "left", "Dem" and "GOP" are somewhat irrelevant. With the dawn of the Obama presidency it seems more appropriate to shape a backdrop that falls into "individualism" and "collectivism".
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them," wrote Immanuel Kant, "the starry heavens above and the moral law within." These days, the moral law within is being viewed with increasing awe, if …
MONKEYS and apes have a sense of morality and the rudimentary ability to tell right from wrong, according to new research.
USAtogether has no office or employees, keeping the operation "outrageously efficient," Mahler said.
Singer Leonard Cohen has donated A$200,000 (£90,000) to aid victims of the Australian bushfires. Cohen is currently touring across Australia, performing his final concert on Tuesday in Melbourne.
A MYSTERY American recluse who chose to put his cash into Scottish castles rather than US banks has handed over a gift of £1.4 million for the National Trust for Scotland, The Scotsman has learned.
The Dalai Lama is teaming up with Stanford University and a multi-millionaire professor to launch a new research centre dedicated to compassion and altruism.
"[...] the distinction between private and public generosity is helpful in understanding what motivates people to give money to charities or donate blood, acts which are costly to the doer and primarily benefit others.
It's often said that today's kids are selfish and materialistic. They don't appreciate what they have. They obsess over the latest fashions, video games, and gadgets. They know more about the life of Lindsay Lohan than Abraham Lincoln. And so on.
About three years ago, it occurred to Dolores Veliz that so many immigrants had moved into her Beacon Hill neighborhood that she literally couldn't talk to her neighbors anymore. "Many of them don't speak any English. And I don't speak Chinese," she said.
"After analyzing three decades of research, Canadian scholars have concluded that religion can make people more honest while inspiring them to help people they don't know, even when that exacts a personal cost. ... "The cognitive awareness of gods is likely to heighten prosocia …
It started as a two-line message on the Internet and ended up mobilizing a small crowd that roamed Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the snow Sunday handing out warm clothing to the homeless who live there.
Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
The estate of a New York mortician whose family was one of IBM's earliest investors has bequeathed $75 million to Georgetown University, the school's largest-ever philanthropic gift.
Doctors gave 11-year-old Brenden Foster two weeks to live. Those two weeks were up on Wednesday. On Friday, he shared his last wish. Not yet a teenager, Brenden's time to die has come.
The Republican Party's relationship with religious fundamentalists cost them the election, and I am glad that they lost. Because of Christian influence, Bush launched an altruistic, religion-inspired war on Iraq in order to give Iraqis "liberty" (democracy, i.e. mob rule, i.e.
The notion that the individual should sacrifice or be sacrificed for the "collective" or the "community" or the "greater good" is not noble; it is evil. It is the very idea that gave rise to communism, Nazism, and fascism.
Here is the story, with video, of the hero-dog Leo who bravely and heartwarmingly stood vigil in a burning building rather than abandon the four kittens he was looking after to a fiery fate.
An essay states that altruism, giving without thought of ones self, is not directly attributable to religion alone, and a number of modern institutions can take religions place!
In small hunter-gatherer bands or subsistence farming villages, it's pretty easy to keep track of just how cooperative your neighbors are.
Belief in God encourages people to be helpful, honest and generous, but only under certain psychological conditions, according to University of British Columbia researchers who analyzed the past three decades of social science research.