Economic experiments have suggested that cooperative humans will altruistically match local levels of cooperation (conditional cooperation) and pay to punish non-cooperators (altruistic punishment).

Many Americans on the political right appear to have adopted the notion that selfishness is a desirable personal and public trait while its opposite, namely altruism, is harmful to individuals and ...

Image captured with functional MRI shows the location in the brain's ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) where an increase in neural altruism occurred for a group of women who wrote about gratitude ...