David Sloan-WilsonTopic: Compassion and Altruism from an Integrated Evolutionary PerspectiveLocation: Cubberley AuditoriumI am an evolutionist who studies all aspects of humanity in addition to the biological world. I manage a number of programs design…

This month, as the city prepares to welcome the Dalai Lama, several special events will be held to celebrate Louisville’s status as a “Compassionate City” and Mayor Greg Fischer’s mission to make the city a friendlier, more caring place to live and vis…

New research is finding that oxytocin doesn’t just bond us to mothers, lovers, and friends—it also seems to play a role in excluding others from that bond. It’s been called the cuddle hormone, the holiday hormone, themoral …

Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins wi…