Tag: altruism
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Sparking generosity
It turns out you can make people a bit less selfish just by stimulating certain areas of the brain. Researchers at the University of Zurich asked 44 volunteers to split an amount of money between themselves and an anonymous other person, as BBC News reported. When two particular areas of the brain were stimulated at…
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Why super-altruists will give up a kidney
Would you give up a kidney to save the life of an anonymous stranger? Me neither. (I’m too squeamish even to donate blood.) But some people would. In fact, nearly 1,000 people in the UK have given up theirs, not because they’ve been moved to act by an individual’s appeal for help, but as “non-directed…
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