Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior such as donating money or volunteering, according to a new global study. Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviour ...

A massive new study indicates that people with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to engage in behaviors that benefit society. The research links higher intelligence scores to higher rates of ...

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study from the University of Zurich, available on the PsyArXiv preprint server, now shows that personality traits such as extraversion ...

Oh, the joy of inflicting pain upon others. The Germans have a word for it: "schadenfreude," meaning "malicious pleasure." And tapping into its sentiment properly can, ironically, do a lot of good by ...

Researchers from University of Kentucky, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania University published a new Journal of Marketing article that explores scenarios where people take on an ambassador ...

Humans and animals can exhibit a wide variety of behaviors when interacting with their peers. These include both prosocial behaviors, voluntary actions aimed at supporting or helping others, and ...

Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...