The “identifiable victim effect” refers to peoples' tendency to preferentially give to identified versus anonymous victims of misfortune, and has been proposed to partly depend on affect …
Researchers and practitioners in the area of charitable giving have long lamented the tendency to offer greater aid to one person who is suffering rather than to a large group with …
H Sabato, Y Abraham, T Kogut - Journal of Research on …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We examined early adolescents' social connections, their emotional state, and their willingness to act prosocially during COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown. In two studies …
We investigate COVID-19 related consumers' donation intent predicated on their political ideology and the message frame-one emphasising the statistical number of affected victims …
T Kogut, I Ritov - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We demonstrate a gap between decisions toward concrete vs. toward abstract entities.•This gap appears in both private and public decisions in various …
A critical question for government officials, managers of NGOs, and politicians is how to respond to situations in which large numbers of lives are at risk. Theories in judgment and …
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 …
In the current chapter, I will discuss a phenomenon known as “compassion collapse”: people tend to feel and act less compassionately for multiple suffering victims than for a single …
We report an experiment to study the effect of defaults on charitable giving. In three different treatments, participants face varying default levels of donation. In three other treatments that …