Charity giving decisions are complex and often biased by people’s cognitive and affective processes; they have to consider a large amount of information about the recipient, his/her situation, the charity organization, and this might require a lot of effort. For this reason, heuristics are often used to make a similar process easier. The present dissertation focuses on how anchors, presented as social information can influence decisions related to charity giving. On the one side, individuals can simply anchor to numbers they read on a sheet of paper (which represent the average amount of money that others’ donate) as a result of the intuitive thinking. On the other hand, they have to think about the appropriateness of their decision, the ob...
Although the non-profit sector is now the third largest sector of the global economy, relatively lit...
Charity could do the most good if every dollar donated went to causes that produced the greatest wel...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and don...
Charity giving decisions are complex and often biased by people’s cognitive and affective processes;...
Because of the large amount of information and the difficulty in selecting an appropriate recipient ...
Recent research on charitable donations shows that donors evaluate both the impact of helping and it...
The critical research question pondered in this paper is whether donation intentions can be predicte...
As a result of social, environmental, and economic crises, demand for public donations has increased...
Humans are known for their extensive prosocial behavior. An example of such behavior is philanthropi...
We provide an experimental test of the role of self-signaling in decisions to do- nate to charity. O...
A controlled experiment establishes that differences in relational proximity can evoke or suppress a...
Agreeable people are more likely to display prosocial attitudes and helpful behavior in a broad rang...
Charitable donations represent a possible indirect way to face the social challenge of poverty with ...
Emotions can influence charity donation decisions in ways that people and policy makers might prefer...
Humans are remarkable for the level of altruistic and prosocial behaviour they display. This has bee...
Although the non-profit sector is now the third largest sector of the global economy, relatively lit...
Charity could do the most good if every dollar donated went to causes that produced the greatest wel...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and don...
Charity giving decisions are complex and often biased by people’s cognitive and affective processes;...
Because of the large amount of information and the difficulty in selecting an appropriate recipient ...
Recent research on charitable donations shows that donors evaluate both the impact of helping and it...
The critical research question pondered in this paper is whether donation intentions can be predicte...
As a result of social, environmental, and economic crises, demand for public donations has increased...
Humans are known for their extensive prosocial behavior. An example of such behavior is philanthropi...
We provide an experimental test of the role of self-signaling in decisions to do- nate to charity. O...
A controlled experiment establishes that differences in relational proximity can evoke or suppress a...
Agreeable people are more likely to display prosocial attitudes and helpful behavior in a broad rang...
Charitable donations represent a possible indirect way to face the social challenge of poverty with ...
Emotions can influence charity donation decisions in ways that people and policy makers might prefer...
Humans are remarkable for the level of altruistic and prosocial behaviour they display. This has bee...
Although the non-profit sector is now the third largest sector of the global economy, relatively lit...
Charity could do the most good if every dollar donated went to causes that produced the greatest wel...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and don...