'Doing Good' Isn't In Your Genes, Study Says
What makes people help others? Evolutionary scientists have long debated whether our genes have anything to do with behaviors that make us help strang...
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Four-Year-Old Inspires Sustainable Business
Ode Magazine | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
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Here's a story you might find encouraging - it's a story that makes it seem entirely possible for the entrepreneurial impulse to exist alongside fierc...
The Dalai Lama's Secret: What Makes Us Good?
Mark Matousek | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
The components of altruistic energy appear to be as measurable as photons and electrons, and are more palpable than a skeptic might imagine.
Sci-Fi Morality: Could Aliens Save Us from Prejudice?
Jamil Zaki | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
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Mountains of evidence suggest that being part of a group changes our perceptions of members of other groups at startlingly basic levels.
The Healing Power of Compassion: Actress Finds Remedy For Stress With Her "Big Give"
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
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"It is better to give than to receive" is a phrase that has become so commonplace, it's easy to take the meaning lightly. Many of us have felt that wo...
Good-Bye, Cruel World!
Hello, 'Do One Nice Thing'
Debbie Tenzer | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
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Helping every week is strength training for the soul. With all the bad news in the world, it's easy to become numb but making kindness a regular habit keeps your compassion muscles strong.
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XII: Multilevel Selection Theory, Salsa Style
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
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No matter how the groups are formed, no matter how flexible the choice of behaviors, altruism is locally disadvantageous and requires higher-level selection to evolve.
Does Evangelical Giving Do the World Good?
Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living
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When a person's altruistic impulses are directed toward winning converts, it is valid to ask whether they are actually serving human well-being or simply serving a mind virus.
Happiness Myth No. 10: It's Selfish To Try to Be Happier.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.15.2009 | Living
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As I've studied happiness over the past few years, I've learned many things that surprised me. Each day for last two weeks, I've been debunking one "...
My Big Fat Vegan Kidney Donation
Hillary Rettig | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
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A lot of people look at you weird when you tell them you're donating a kidney to a non-family member, just as they look at you weird when you tell them you're vegan.
Obama and the Science of Altruism
Jamil Zaki | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
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Why would we have evolved to feel each other's pain? Two aspects of empathy can help explain this, and the reason that evolution may have selected for strong empathizers in the first place.
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection IV: The Great Reckoning
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
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By the 1960's, evolutionary theory had settled into a comfortable paradigm called the Modern Synthesis.
Bill Gates' Misguided Capitalism
William Easterly | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
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Gates' attacks the system that has historically done the most to alleviate poverty -- traditional capitalism -- in favor of an implausible alternative -- a third way that mixes profits and altruism.
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