{"id":123088,"date":"2025-10-21T04:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=123088"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:19:25","slug":"if-it-does-good-feel-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2025\/10\/21\/if-it-does-good-feel-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"If It Does Good, Feel It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2015.\u00a0<\/strong>Does a good deed count as truly \u201cgood\u201d if doing it makes you feel better? Can an act be genuinely \u201caltruistic\u201d if it\u2019s not purely selfless? Philosophers have debated that question ever since the time of Plato. Now a team of researchers has undertaken an empirical study of that existential quandary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/if_it_does_good_feel_it#\">Read full story<\/a><script>;<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2015.\u00a0Does a good deed count as truly \u201cgood\u201d if doing it makes you feel better?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-happiness-and-philanthropy"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123107,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123088\/revisions\/123107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}