Do nice guys finish last, or first? What about nice women? We continue to debate the relational value of kind, compassionate behavior. But one aspect of being “nice” that has been linked with romantic ...

A study in China found that junior high school students who recall more maternal touch in childhood tend to manifest more ...

A recent study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people’s tendency to act in ...

People’s willingness to do volunteer work or give to charity differs greatly. Besides financial and social incentives, individual differences in people’s personality can explain why some of us are ...

Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a new study. By performing a network analysis on whole-brain activity of male ...

Wealthy people are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviour such as donating money or volunteering, according to a new global study. In a new paper published today in PNAS Nexus, researchers from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Aug 30, 2025, 10:54pm EDT Sep 02, 2025, 10:02pm EDT Child ...

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 ...

Scientists investigated how social relationship strength and oxytocin receptor expression could underlie individual differences in helping behaviors. To undertake these experiments, the researchers ...