Sacrifice did not begin as a divine instruction. It began as a human response to vulnerability. Faced with forces beyond control—weather, fertility, illness, loss—human beings reached for a way to ...

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You asked your partner to pick up milk, but find no milk in the fridge for your coffee the next morning. The phone rings and you and your partner get invited to dinner with friends of his you don’t ...

A new study published in the Journal of Current Opinion in Psychology explains why the noble act of sacrifice may have hidden negative costs for both its giver and its receiver in a romantic ...

Live long enough and you’ll see your favorite tropes get subverted, then those subversions become tropes in their own right. Over the last decade, a very specific iteration of the human sacrifice ...