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Nursing has long been seen as a vocation, not a skill. This impacts nursing staff and patients both.
Many well-intentioned people are supporting counterproductive efforts to help Ukraine. Behavioural science can explain why.
There’s a global trend towards ‘third age entrepreneurship’, but the motivations behind these senior start-ups might surprise.
As uncertainty abounds and anxiety skyrockets, you’ve probably heard advice to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith. Here are 10 concrete tips to help you actually manage the stress.
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus’s spread.
Brain science suggests that seniors care more about the welfare of others than younger folks do.
Using distance to avoid getting sick has deep evolutionary roots for humans and many other species.
Using a survey taken from March 10 – March 16, social scientists tried to untangle the complicated connection between feelings of vulnerability and behavior change in response to the coronavirus.
We might recover our sense of being part of society.
Disasters and times of crisis bring out the best in most of us. Despite the media focus on initial panic at the COVID-19 pandemic, we are are starting to see a more heartening community response.
Some argue humans lack the altruism and long-term thinking that is needed to deal with the climate crisis. So how can you stay motivated?
Because most people want to be perceived as generous, sometimes monetary incentives for doing a good deed are counterproductive.
Vampire bats form social bonds similar to human friendships – and they’re good friends to those in need.
A thought experiment from Richard Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene turned out to be a more realistic explanation for altruism than he expected.
Self-sacrifice isn’t all about selfish genes.
Is everything about who we are contained within our brains?
Where do the cooperative skills that hold together human societies come from and why don’t our selfish instincts overwhelm them? Evolutionary game theory suggests that empathy is a crucial contributor.
Even though we might grumble about the pressures of Christmas, new research shows that we give because we genuinely want to make people happy.
How does being thankful about things in your own life relate to any selfless concern you may have about the well-being of others? A neuroscientist explores the gratitude/altruism connection.
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Laureate Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Personality or Individual Differences, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Fellow, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Fellow of Green Templeton College, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Professor in Behavioural Genetics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Economics, Cognitive Science and Management, Yale University
