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·August 20, 2015·2 min read

People with Psychopathic Traits Less Likely to “Catch” a Contagious Yawn

According to a new study, those with psychopathic characteristics are less likely to react to a contagious yawn as their more empathetic peers.

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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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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·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.