Given that this time of the year is a festive season for many people all over the world, today’s post will be about the decision to help others. Prosocial acts—which social scientists define as those ...

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 ...

Western society typically promotes neo-liberal economic values of capital growth, both for the individual and society as a whole, as an ideal for prosperity. The basic idea is that free and ...

Before meeting University of Missouri research professor Christi Bergin, fifth-grade science teacher Amber Lewis was used to managing classroom behavior using rewards and consequences. Through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies ...