The authors present an overview of the academic literature on charitable giving based on a
literature review of more than 500 articles. They structure their review around the central …

Controllability, or the influence one has over their surroundings, is crucial for decision-
making and mental health. Traditionally, controllability is operationalized in sensorimotor …

Does being from a higher social class lead a person to engage in more or less prosocial
behavior? Psychological research has recently provided support for a negative effect of …

Individuals can experience a lack of economic resources compared to others, which we refer
to as subjective experiences of economic scarcity. While such experiences have been …

In order to be considered a basic psychological need, a candidate need should fulfill several
criteria, including need satisfaction having a unique positive effect on well-being, and need …

The geographic prevalence of various altruistic behaviors (nonreciprocal acts that improve
other people's welfare) is not uniformly distributed, but whether this reflects variation in a …

A landmark study published in PNAS [Côté S, House J, Willer R (2015) Proc Natl Acad Sci
USA 112: 15838–15843] showed that higher income individuals are less generous than …

This study is part of the growing literature on the effects on civic engagement of attitudinal
predictors, such as trust, along with structural predictors. Drawing data from the 2005 …

When considering a charitable act, consumers must often decide on how to allocate their
resources across a multitude of possible causes. This article assesses how the relative …

The years 2020 and 2021 brought seismic changes to the emotional and social lives of
people around the globe as an unprecedented global pandemic catalyzed various forms of …