The study of moral disengagement has greatly informed research on aggression and
bullying. There has been some debate on whether cyberbullies and other cyber-aggressors …

Abstract 'Sharing economy'platforms such as Airbnb have recently flourished in the tourism
industry. The prominent appearance of sellers' photos on these platforms motivated our …

People's willingness to contribute (WTC) more resources to save the lives of identified
victims than to save anonymous or statistical victims is known as the identifiable victim effect …

Highlights•We demonstrate a gap between decisions toward concrete vs. toward abstract
entities.•This gap appears in both private and public decisions in various …

The effects of group memberships of disaster victims and perpetrators on charitable
donations were measured. In Study 1 (N= 92), victim group membership was experimentally …

The willingness of humans to engage in third-party punishment (TPP)—a lynchpin of our
society—critically depends on the interaction between the wrongdoer's intent and the harm …

One of the puzzling phenomena in philanthropy is that people can show strong compassion
for identified individual victims but remain unmoved by catastrophes that affect large …

We show that a decision of potential shamers to take part in (“share” and “retweet”) an online
shaming campaign against alleged wrongdoers is shaped by two factors: the potential …

This research examines gender-based helping behavior from a social dominance
perspective. We focused on the interplay between the gender of a prospective donor and the …

People not only seek to avoid losses or secure gains; they also attempt to create
opportunities for obtaining positive outcomes. When distributing money between gambles …