A review of nudges: Definitions, justifications, effectiveness

L Congiu, I Moscati - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein
published a book in which they advocated a novel approach to public policy based on the …

Neural underpinnings of the identifiable victim effect: Affect shifts preferences for giving

A Genevsky, D Västfjäll, P Slovic… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
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 …

Helping one or helping many? A theoretical integration and meta-analytic review of the compassion fade literature

MM Butts, DC Lunt, TL Freling, AS Gabriel - Organizational Behavior and …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Too lonely to help: Early adolescents' social connections and willingness to help during COVID‐19 lockdown

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 …

The effect of political ideology and message frame on donation intent during the COVID-19 pandemic

P van Esch, YG Cui, SP Jain - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Target dependent ethics: discrepancies between ethical decisions toward specific and general targets

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Scope insensitivity: The limits of intuitive valuation of human lives in public policy

S Dickert, D Västfjäll, J Kleber, P Slovic - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Mental imagery, impact, and affect: A mediation model for charitable giving

S Dickert, J Kleber, D Västfjäll, P Slovic - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
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 …

[图书][B] Compassion collapse: Why we are numb to numbers

CD Cameron - 2017 - books.google.com
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 …

Charitable giving, emotions, and the default effect

L Fiala, CN Noussair - Economic Inquiry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …