“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 ...

In this meditative but somewhat murky philosophical account of love, Armstrong aims to develop a""mature conception"" of the emotion by exploring a different love-related theme in each chapter of this ...

A research team developed a new experimental game to explore whether people avoid witnessing selfish behavior to evade punishing others or simply to avoid confronting unfairness. The study found that ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...