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2025
Want a happier 2025? It comes down to two words, a neuroscientist says
Georgetown University
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10 Jan 2025
2024
Doing good is good for you, research shows
Washington Post
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28 Nov 2024
Computational psychiatry postdoctoral fellow earns NIH Director's Early Independence Award
Mount Sinai
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28 Oct 2024
NIH to award over $207 million to support highly innovative biomedical and behavioral research projects
National Institutes of Health
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08 Oct 2024
Do Moral Gains Necessarily Entail Moral Losses?
Psychology Today
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31 May 2024
Three Alumni Receive Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award
Georgetown University
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21 May 2024
2023
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Hero?
Psychology Today
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08 Dec 2023
The Neuroscience Behind Superhuman Acts of Generosity
Georgetown University
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14 Jul 2023
These 3 Personality Traits Define Extreme Altruists — Do You Have Them?
Inverse
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30 Apr 2023
Happiness Is a Movement
Psychology Today
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30 Apr 2023
Heroes, They're Just Like Us (Almost)
The Medical Republic
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24 Apr 2023
Psychologists Map the Psyche of Extreme Altruists
EurekAlert
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19 Apr 2023
Georgetown Researchers Contribute to UN World Happiness Report
Georgetown University
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20 Mar 2023
2022
Ph.D. Students are Winners at 2022 Graduate Student Awards
Georgetown University
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21 Apr 2022
Shawn Rhoads Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation
Georgetown University
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20 Apr 2022
The 2021 APA Dissertation Research Award Recipients
American Psychological Association
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10 Mar 2022
2021
Individualism Makes Us Altruistic and Happy
Bloomberg
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27 Jun 2021
Everyone Thinks Americans Are Selfish. They're Wrong.
New York Times
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26 May 2021
2020
Ph.D. Student to Participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Georgetown University
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23 Mar 2020
Interview with Shawn Rhoads, Recipient of the Mistletoe Research Fellowship
Georgetown University
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03 Dec 2020
2018
Four Graduate Students Win NSF Fellowships
Georgetown University
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04 May 2018