The Healing Arts Initiative Scandal Shows The Need For Effective Altruism
The Healing Arts Initiative is a nonprofit that brings concerts and theatrical performances to hundreds of thousands of disabled, elderly, and poor people each...
How To Avoid Impulsive Temptations
Imagine that every day in your office, there is a lady that drives a small basket of cakes, with your favourite chocolate donuts. In...
Why You Don’t Think You’re Beautiful
Written by Hunter Glenn
Long-time friends Amy, Bailey, and Casey are having their weekly lunch together when Amy says “I don’t think I’m very beautiful.”
Have...
Trump Feels Your Anger and Anxiety: How Neuroscience Helps Explain Trump’s Triumphs
First published in Salon
Donald Trump has effectively secured the Republican presidential nomination. He achieved his victory despite opposition from the Republican establishment, which tried...
Why You Should Be Public About Your Good Deeds
When I first started donating, I did so anonymously. My default baseline is to be humble and avoid showing off. I didn’t want others...
How Feedback is Good For You (Even When You Feel Bad About It)
What does “Performance Feedback” mean to you? People describe receiving feedback from their bosses as:
• A waste of time
• Painful
• Completely off base
• A...
Online Video Course: Finding Meaning and Purpose in the Workplace Using Science
This video-based one-hour course will first evaluate the current sense of meaning and purpose among participants using a science-based questionnaire developed by Dr. Gleb...
9 Strategies for Effective Donors
You're generous and kind. You care about other people and want to help them have great lives. You want to make a positive impact...
The Smart Way to Work With Purpose
Jerome is desperate. He drags himself to his office job every day, the one he’s had for 4 years now. He clocks in at...
Video: How To Reach Your Personal and Societal Goals
Author’s photo with an earring, which he got intentionally to project an image to others so as to achieve his social goals
The science of...