Random acts of kindness help others—but they're good for the helpers, too 💗 Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW When was the last ...

Prosocial behaviors are the voluntary actions we take to help others with no expected benefit for ourselves. Actions can be seemingly insignificant such as correcting a buddy’s uniform infraction or ...

Collective pro-social behavior can be induced by the right messaging. Source: jasperai/OpenAI When confronted with frequent news of inhumane behavior, people often want to create change for the better ...

People’s willingness to do volunteer work or give to charity differs greatly. Besides financial and social incentives, individual differences in people’s personality can explain why some of us are ...

Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior such as donating money or volunteering, according to a new global study. Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviour ...

A new analysis using data from a longitudinal study that followed children between the ages of 5 and 17 has revealed a surprising association; kids who engaged in kind, caring, and helpful behaviors ...

If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden ...

Lin, Stephanie C., Julian Zlatev, and Dale T. Miller. "Moral Traps: When Self-serving Attributions Backfire in Prosocial Behavior." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 70 (May 2017): 198–203.

If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden ...