A new study explores why some individuals are more inclined to help others, finding key differences in brain activity and ...

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the ...

Rats help familiar friends more than strangers, driven by brain oxytocin and social bonds. The study shows helping is about connection.

Scientists investigated how social relationship strength and oxytocin receptor expression could underlie individual ...

And while rich people might appear to be more generous, the intent behind their giving actions might have you shaking your ...

New research shows that supplementing vasopressin levels in low-social rhesus monkeys improves social behavior and facial ...

A new study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that elementary school children with friends ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

Sensitive parental interactions during the first year of life may directly affect the structure of babies' brains and prevent ...

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study now shows that personality traits such as extraversion and agreeableness correlate with volunteering and charitable giving.