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          ·September 14, 2022·3 min read

          Moral Illusions May Alter Our Behavior

          Moral illusions can fool our decision-making, making us more selfish, a new study reveals.
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          ·August 24, 2022·8 min read

          Sleepless and Selfish: Lack of Sleep Makes Us Less Generous

          A lack of sleep impairs our basic social conscience, making us less willing to help others.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·September 28, 2021·3 min read

          Information Can Reduce Selfish Behavior

          People in competitive situations are more ready to accept the results and outcomes if they receive information that the process has been fair. This results in a reduction of selfish behaviors.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·July 14, 2021·7 min read

          Mindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous

          Mindful meditation causes those who consider themselves to be more "independent-minded" or egocentric to become less generous and more selfish, researchers report.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 16, 2021·4 min read

          Older Adults Most Likely to Make the Effort to Help Others

          Older adults are more likely to make an effort to help others, a new study reports. Researchers found, when faced with tasks that required more effort, older adults were more likely to offer help than younger people. By contrast, younger adults were more selfish and put in higher levels of effort for self-benefit.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 13, 2021·4 min read

          Mindfulness Can Make You Selfish

          Often touted as helping to improve personal mental states, a new study reveals mindfulness can actually make people more selfish. Those who consider themselves to be more independent-minded, rather than having a pluralistic mindset, demonstrate a decrease in prosocial behavior following mindful meditation.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·March 17, 2021·6 min read

          Selfish or Selfless? Human Nature Means You’re Both

          Study reveals we all have the capacity to think about others as well as ourselves, but thinking about one's self takes precedence.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·April 29, 2020·3 min read

          Memory misfires help selfish maintain their self-image

          Selfish people tend to remember being more benevolent than they actually are. The false memory helps those with selfish tendencies to maintain a moral self-image.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·February 24, 2020·3 min read

          Generosity and selfishness: A neural dance

          Unique signatures of neural synchrony reflect whether pro-social or anti-social decisions are made. Brain regions, including the cingulate gyrus, amygdala, and medial prefrontal cortex, are highly synchronized when pro-social behavior is exhibited but decreases in the presence of anti-social behavior.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·December 13, 2019·6 min read

          Deepening our understanding of selfish behavior

          Study identifies distinct neural processes that occur when we make decisions for the benefit of ourselves and of others.
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          ·October 29, 2018·2 min read

          Chimpanzees React Faster to Cooperate than Make Selfish Choices

          According to researchers, chimpanzees make prosocial choices more rapidly than making choices that only benefit themselves.
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          FeaturedPsychology
          ·October 17, 2018·3 min read

          Have Being Selfish Affects Reproduction and Earnings

          A new study reports selfish people are more likely to have less children and earn less money than their more generous peers.
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