Generosity between spouses is a key element to a happy marriage, a new study says. In essence, generosity is the amount of giving that goes on within a relationship, which can mean anything from ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While generosity is a core value for three-quarters of Americans, economic concerns have caused some to tighten their purse strings. Three in ten (29%) Americans report ...
South Africa has claimed the top spot as the world's most generous nation in a comprehensive global study measuring empathy, ...
Contagiousness: It’s contagious! Happiness was contagious in 2008, then loneliness last year, and don’t forget being fat. Now it’s generosity that spreads like the flu across social networks, ...
A person's own behavior is the primary driver of how they treat others during brief, zero-sum-game competitions, researchers report. Generous people tend to reward generous behavior and selfish ...
A new study from the Fraser Institute on Canadian generosity has found that the number of Canadians donating to charity ...
It's been happening for years: When the collection basket is passed at churches, it's the older generations who are more likely to drop a donation inside. Are young people just not generous? The Barna ...
Performing random acts of kindness can improve your wellbeing more than any pre-planned act of generosity or time spent volunteering, a new study revealed. Researchers from the University of Hong Kong ...
A group of women and children from the Ik tribe share a meal. (Credit: Cathryn Townsend) In January 2016, Cathryn Townsend set out to live among “the loveless people.” So named by anthropologist Colin ...
Problem: It’s a problem, or a dilemma, as old as time. Let’s rehash, quickly. Your classic prisoner’s dilemma involves two prisoners being interrogated separately. If both deny committing the crime, ...
A new study at an Irish university suggests that gossip influences generosity, reports Reuters. Researchers asked 72 college students to distribute tokens with a monetary value between themselves and ...
From the Fraser Institutes’s study “Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2009 Generosity Index”: The Generosity Index measures private monetary generosity using two indicators: the ...