Among the wealthiest proponents of effective altruism is Dustin Moskovitz, who co-founded Facebook and makes charitable giving decisions with his wife, Cari Tuna. Effective altruism is an intellectual ...

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself derives ...

Curious to learn where you land on that continuum? This egoism vs. altruism quiz in Psychology Today gives you a score. Dr. Manly notes that genetic components can affect a person’s tendency to be ...

How funders undermine their own success. Is your philanthropic practice suffering from delusional altruism? How will you know? Funders may think they’re doing things right when they are, in fact, ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...

In March 2006 a friend gave me her right kidney. I had been searching for a donor for more than a year–my kidneys mysteriously gave out in 2004–and things were not going well. Three friends offered to ...

Lightweight and sophisticated tracking devices have made it possible to study the behavior of birds in all kinds of useful ways, for example, helping keep them safe from ships or monitoring their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a global philanthropy advisor and author of Delusional Altruism. As philanthropists seek to change the world, many need to get ...

The crypto industry has been thrown into crisis by the collapse of FTX, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, and its sister hedge fund, Alameda Research. It’s raising questions ...