Are you a selfish partner? Before you answer, keep in mind there is a difference between being selfish and being labeled as “selfish” because our actions do not please or benefit someone else. If you ...

It was Matt Judy, an agent who represents PGA Tour players and who once represented Matt Kuchar, who put the need for selfishness among elite professional golfers to me most succinctly during an ...

Selfishness often receives a bad rap, usually associated with greed, narcissism, or moral failure. However, is it always destructive, or could it serve an evolutionary and ethical purpose? As our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Being selfish has a bad reputation. We’re often taught from an ...

Selfish is as selfish does. If you have influence, perpetuate or tolerate a selfish culture in your organization, you will reap the self-serving behavior you have sown. Selfish behavior didn’t work on ...

Readers, responding to a column by Paul Krugman, discuss whether selfishness crosses party lines. To the Editor: Re “The Cult of Selfishness Is Killing America,” by Paul Krugman (column, July 28): ...

Myth 1: As with pregnancy one either is or isn’t selfish: With our broadest brush we paint someone as a “selfish person.” We try for a finer, “curse-the-sin-not-the-sinner” brushstroke in saying it’s ...

Anyone who has worked in the restaurant business will be happy to tell you that waiters always fight each other to avoid working Sunday lunch shift. Not because they want to sleep in, but because it’s ...