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Money and flexible generosity.
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2021 Previous research on money and prosociality has described a monotonic pattern, showing that money reduces generosity. The present research aimed to examine whether money differently impairs generosity when arising from altruistic versus egoistic motives.
Xijing Wang +3 more
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Humans expect generosity [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Mechanisms supporting human ultra-cooperativeness are very much subject to debate. One psychological feature likely to be relevant is the formation of expectations, particularly about receiving cooperative or generous behavior from others.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +2 more
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Generosity among the Ik of Uganda
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 According to Turnbull's 1972 ethnography The Mountain People, the Ik of Uganda had a culture of selfishness that made them uncooperative. His claims contrast with two widely accepted principles in evolutionary biology, that humans cooperate on larger ...
Cathryn Townsend +3 more
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, 2007 We develop a simple model of generous behavior. It is based on the premise that some people are generous, but everyone wants to appear generous. Although non-monetary donations are always inefficient, our model predicts donors to favor non-monetary ...
Ellingsen, Tore, Johannesson, Magnus
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games [PDF]
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022 Understanding social interactions and generous behaviors have long been of considerable interest in the social sciences community. While the contagion of generosity is documented in the real world, less is known about such phenomenon in virtual worlds ...
Alex Bisberg +4 more
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Political ideology and generosity around the globe
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 In a world severely put under stress by COVID-19, generosity becomes increasingly essential both when able to transcend local boundaries, building upon universalistic values, and when directed toward more local contexts, such as the native country.
Veronica Pizziol +3 more
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UI Generosity and Job Acceptance: Effects of the 2020 CARES Act
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series, 2021 To provide relief to the U.S. labor market following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CARES Act granted an extra $600 per week in UI benefit payments from late March through July 2020.
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau +1 more
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Increased generosity under COVID-19 threat
Scientific Reports, 2021 In the face of crises—wars, pandemics, and natural disasters—both increased selfishness and increased generosity may emerge. In this paper, we study the relationship between the presence of COVID-19 threat and generosity using a four-year longitudinal ...
Ariel Fridman, R. Gershon, Ayelet Gneezy
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Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Testosterone is associated with aggressive behavior in both animals and humans. Here, we establish a link between increased testosterone and selfishness in economic decision making and identify the neural mechanisms through which ...
Jianxin Ou +5 more
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Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries
Journal of Social Policy, 2021 Pension adequacy is gaining importance as old-age poverty remains a pressing problem. In many advanced welfare states, the population is ageing rapidly and recent pension reforms have led to cuts in public pension provision.
K. Kuitto, J. Madia, F. Podestà
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