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- Kindness Makes You Happy… and Happiness Makes You Kind - Greater GoodTwo recent studies suggest that giving to others makes us happy, even happier than spending on ourselves. What’s more, our kindness might create a virtuous cycle that promotes lasting happiness and altruism. In one of the studies, published last year in the Journal of Social Psychology, researchers in Great Britain had participants take a ...
- Is There an Altruism Gene? - Greater GoodPsychologist Sebastian Markett, a study co-author also at the University of Bonn, says the results show how a single genetic mutation can have a large effect on our behavior. But he believes science still has much to learn about the genetics of altruism. “There must be more genes which influence altruistic behavior whose association has not ...
- Why Does Altruism Exist? - Greater Good“When altruism is defined in terms of action and in terms of relative fitness within and between groups, it exists wherever there is group-level functional organization,” he writes. Wilson says that evolutionary theorists need to get away from looking merely to genetic explanations for natural selection.
- How Altruistic is Your Brain? - Greater GoodIn his book The Altruistic Brain, Pfaff argues that findings from neuroscience and behavioral science point to a new model of altruism—one that sees altruism not as a response to moral authority, but as an instinct that is hard-wired into our brains. In other words, we are “born to be good,” he argues: We have the brain circuitry that ...
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