Mental Budgeting and Charitable Giving: Matching Motives with Budgets to Maximize Giving

Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Stinson ◽  
Monica LaBarge





2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Mahajan ◽  
Pranati Paidipat ◽  
Rasika Khangarle ◽  
Mona Mulchandani


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Petrova ◽  
Ricardo Perez-Truglia ◽  
Andrei Simonov ◽  
Pinar Yildirim




2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722098273
Author(s):  
Alexander Garinther ◽  
Holly Arrow ◽  
Pooya Razavi

Studies of victim number effects in charitable giving consistently find that people care more and help more when presented with an appeal to help an individual compared with an appeal to help multiple people in need. Across three online experiments ( N = 1,348), Bayesian estimation revealed the opposite pattern when people responded to multiple appeals to help targets of different sizes (1, 2, 5, 7, and 12). In this joint evaluation context, participants donated more to larger groups, when appeals were presented in both ascending order (Study 1) and random order (Study 2). The pattern held whether or not participants saw an overview of all appeals at the start of the study and when a single individual was added to the array (Study 3). These results clarify how compassion fade findings typical of separate evaluations may not generalize to contexts in which people encounter multiple appeals within a short temporal window.



2006 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 794-807
Author(s):  
Catherine C. Eckel ◽  
Philip J. Grossman


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