People sometimes avoid information about the impact of their actions as an excuse to be
selfish. Such “willful ignorance” reduces altruistic behavior and has detrimental effects in …

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of
proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in …

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both among the scholarly community
and in the general public, and many insist that equality is an important social goal. However …

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a
psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness …

Contemplative pedagogy is a way for instructors to: empower students to integrate their own
experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their …

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution
accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there …

Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while,
however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance …

In explaining the sources of cooperation and prosocial behavior, psychologists, behavioral
economists, and biologists often focus on factors internal to the individual, such as altruistic …

What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

Why do people purchase proenvironmental “green” products? We argue that buying such
products can be construed as altruistic, since green products often cost more and are of …