Highlights•Avoidant people's wish to maintain emotional independence interferes with
sensitive and responsive caregiving.•Anxious people's self-focus, combined with worries …

To understand human prosocial behaviour, one must consider not only the helpers and the
requesters, but also the characteristics of the beneficiaries. To this aim, this articles reviews …

The identifiable victim effect (IVE) refers to individuals' tendency to offer greater help to
specific, identifiable victims than to anonymous, statistical victims. A random-effects meta …

This contribution summarizes the literature on the psychology of charitable donations to
victims of disasters and other unfortunate circumstances. Four distinct research areas are …

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 …

In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using
comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified …

The cultivation of compassion through meditation training is of increasing interest to
scientists, health-care providers, educators, and policymakers as an approach to help …

Diets based on animal products are costly to our health and the planet and often inflict
suffering on animals. In this study, we aimed to elicit animal advocacy among omnivores …

This paper extends previous literature reviews focusing on fundraising and the mechanisms
motivating charitable giving. We analyze 187 experimental research articles focusing on …

The capacity and willingness of employees to deploy their creativity in the pursuit of
organisational goals is a cornerstone of many organisations' competitive advantage …