| View Larger Image | Sympathy and callousness: The impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims [An article from: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes] | Digitalby D.A. Small (Author), G. Loewenstein (Author), P. Slovic (Author)
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| | Binding: | Digital | | Publisher: | Elsevier | | Publication Date: | March 01, 2007 |
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This digital document is a journal article from Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: When donating to charitable causes, people do not value lives consistently. Money is often concentrated on a single victim even though more people would be helped, if resources were dispersed or spent protecting future victims. We examine the impact of deliberating about donation decisions on generosity. In a series of field experiments, we show that teaching or priming people to recognize the discrepancy in giving toward identifiable and statistical victims has perverse effects: individuals give less to identifiable victims but do not increase giving to statistical victims, resulting in an overall reduction in caring and giving. Thus, it appears that, when thinking deliberatively, people discount sympathy towards identifiable victims but fail to generate sympathy toward statistical victims. |
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