From love to human motivation, Voltaire’s “Candide” reveals striking ideas (or perhaps facts) about human nature. Perhaps we are delusional when it comes to love, and perhaps we are not ...

Love for nature tended to be restricted to social cognition areas of the brain. You could argue that love for nature is more ...

abstract notions of nature and animals didn't strike the same chords of love -- with one notable exception. Pet owners had the social areas of the brain that normally are reserved for human ...

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 189. ¶7 It is one of the greatest Reflections upon Human Nature that Paternal Instinct should be a stronger Motive to Love than Filial Gratitude. 1749 H. Fielding ...

Americans are experiencing a “trust recession,” social scientist Jamil Zaki said in his new book, “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.” Zaki is a professor of ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.