When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

Finally, Part VI will deal with reciprocal altruism and other contract issues-gap filling, unallocated risks, good faith in performance, and unconscionability. (Scott Fruehwald) ...

My research suggests that it may have roots in both reciprocal altruism —the biological equivalent of the “tit for tat” strategy used in game theory—and kin altruism —a flavor of altruism that is ...

Effective altruism (EA) has been unusually active in the news this month with the release of the book What We Owe the Future by the Oxford philosopher and founding EA figure Will MacAskill. In it ...

Please give blood One species that demonstrates reciprocal altruism is the vampire bat. These nocturnal mammals feed on the blood of larger animals while they are sleeping.

The coronavirus pandemic has engendered lots of altruism. This is welcome but also unsurprising, since a group of people facing a threat typically relies on collective action to keep self-interest ...

Reciprocal altruism occurs when social benefits are exchanged between interacting individuals 4, and such cooperation evolves only when both partners experience a net gain in lifetime direct ...

Such acts of altruism are almost always a feature of emergency situations. In a London street in 2015, a cyclist was trapped under the wheel of a double-decker bus.

Or perhaps altruism is an investment strategy: we do good deeds to others in the hope that they will return the favour (known as [reciprocal altruism].