If you want to increase your happiness and well-being, spend your money, time or energy on someone else. Research consistently finds that acts of altruism, such as donating money, volunteering or ...

If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant,” Singer argues, “we ought, morally, to do it.” This is the idea behind ...

Many Indiana cities and towns are home to successful families that acquired large fortunes from their entrepreneurial ventures. Think of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, the Ball brothers in Muncie, the ...

Altruistic behaviors may come at a cost, but they relieve physical pain, Dr. Yilu Wang reported in 2020. Dr. Wang's research documented that altruism affects specific regions of the brain to decrease ...

For most people, helping others is intrinsically rewarding because of the release of dopamine. This makes the behavior self-reinforcing.

When we focus on other people and things, we get outside of our heads. The act of hoping for the well-being of the natural ...