Gordon Gekko got it wrong. In his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society, primatologist Frans de Waal uses a variety of studies on empathy in animals to debunk the idea ...

Did selfishness — or sharing — drive human evolution? Evolutionary theorists have traditionally focused on competition and the ruthlessness of natural selection, but often they have failed to consider ...

What If Humans Are Intuitively Selfish? While controversies surrounding SHH lingered on, an alternative theory for the intuitive basis of cooperation was proposed, predicting the exact opposite of SHH ...

The autopilot brain makes preconscious, automatic judgments and behavior choices, predicting the future based primarily on past perceptions and experience. Most behavior is directed by implicit ...