The most effective charities are hundreds of times more effective than typical charities, yet
few donors prioritize effectiveness. Why is that? How might we increase the effectiveness of …

Highlights•Prosocial consumer behavior research examines generosity in consumer
contexts.•Consumers give for both selfless and selfish reasons.•Sympathy provides a coarse …

Policymakers routinely make high-stakes funding decisions. Assessing the value of a
program is difficult and may be affected by bounded rationality. We conducted experiments …

Fuzzy-trace theory assumes that decision-makers process qualitative “gist” representations
and quantitative “verbatim” representations in parallel. We develop a lattice model of fuzzy …

Anti-immigration preferences among educated and racially egalitarian voters is hard to
explain using existing frameworks of self-interest or prejudice. I address this puzzle by …

People usually engage in (or at least profess to engage in) altruistic acts to benefit others.
Yet, they routinely fail to maximize how much good is achieved with their donated money …

Many businesses have moved toward a circular economy, collecting their packaging
material from customers to be reintroduced into their remanufacturing processes. For these …

Some charities are much more cost-effective than other charities, which means that they can
save many more lives with the same amount of money. Yet most donations do not go to the …

We explored how different types of audio-visual media content impacted charitable
donations using a lab experiment. Subjects chose to donate to a charity in a modified …

Groups of people in pain evoke our empathic reactions. Yet how does one empathize with a
group? Here, we aim to identify psychological mechanisms that underlie empathic reactions …