Summary: Researchers have discovered that “tuning” the communication between two specific brain regions can make people act more unselfishly. By using non-invasive transcranial alternating current ...

A new study suggests that generosity may be more than a moral lesson—it could be shaped by how different parts of the brain work together. By gently stimulating two brain regions and syncing their ...

A participant receiving non-invasive brain stimulation during an experiment in a laboratory setting. As parents raise their kids, they often work to teach them to be kind and to share, to think about ...

Stimulating two brain areas, nudging them to collectively fire in the same way, increases a person's ability to behave altruistically, according to a study published in the PLOS Biology by Jie Hu from ...

Anyone who's been around children can attest that they have certain behaviors that would be intolerable in adults. Of course, the tragedy is that some so-called adults still retain the need to ...

A scientist’s close encounter with a tiger shark takes an extraordinary twist when a humpback whale steps in to save her life. In an extraordinary and surreal encounter, marine scientist Nan Hauser ...

Learn how the Empathy-Altruism Theory explains why people help others purely out of compassion, even when there’s no personal gain. This psychological concept challenges the idea of selfish motivation ...

New Caledonian crows shocked researchers when they demonstrated the ability to create tools through a complex, multi-step process. In a groundbreaking study, scientists observed these birds not only ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. For the first time, ...

During her graduate studies, psychologist Stephanie Brown, now an associate professor at Stony Brook University, was immersed in the topic of altruism. One of her advisors, APS Charter Member and ...

Feelings of guilt and shame can lead us to behave in a variety of different ways, including trying to make amends or save face, cooperating more with others or avoiding people altogether. Now, ...