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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Research shows that virtue in all areas of life contributes to good physical, emotional, mental and interpersonal health. It is, in fact, good for you to be good.
The idea that we are only kind to get ahead doesn’t seem to hold up, being nice genuinely makes us feel good.
Study challenges our understanding of optimism as being a self-centered phenomenon.
‘Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen’ will not make you popular, according to new research.
There are few things Americans like more than lists and money, but ranking philanthropists on the monetary size of their giving distorts our understanding of generosity, argues one ethicist.
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Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Research Associate in Life Sciences, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, City, University of London
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bath
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Research Associate in Psychology and the Center for Brain Injury Research and Training; Director of Emotions and Neuroplasticity Project, University of Oregon
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, Strategy Beedie School of Business, SFU, Simon Fraser University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Docteure en sciences sociales, Chercheuse à la Chaire Philanthropie de l'ESSEC, spécialiste de la philanthropie, de la sociologie du transnational, des politiques culturelles, ESSEC
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Lewis Professor and Department Head of Psychology, University of Oregon
