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

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.

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

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

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

In a new study, researchers have found that mice can instinctively exhibit rescue-like behavior toward anesthetized ...

The study, published in PNAS, offers compelling evidence that prosocial behavior may be deeply rooted in biology, extending even to small mammals like mice. Led by Dr. Hu Li from the Institute of ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers have found that mice can instinctively exhibit rescue-like behavior toward anesthetized ...

Two experiments, one conducted in the United States and the other in New Zealand, found that people tend to have an intuitive ...

Sharing is all about giving up personal resources to benefit others. It is a prosocial behavior that requires thinking about the thoughts, desires and needs of others, which can sometimes be ...