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Generosity and Environmental Protection: How Strong Is the Relationship between Giving and Sustainability?

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
(1) Background: Sustainability is a crucial priority and a critical part of the modern world. Promoting pro-social values to the younger generation is an issue addressed throughout this paper.
A. Lazăr   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

UI Generosity and Job Acceptance: Effects of the 2020 CARES Act

open access: yesFederal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms

open access: yesProceedings 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Increased generosity under COVID-19 threat

open access: yesScientific 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries

open access: yesJournal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Parler de générosité dans la mission contemporaine

open access: yesWarszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2022
Is generosity a value, a risk, a counter-value or a question in the contemporary Western context? How is human generosity, aroused and directed by the primary generosity of God, at the heart of the current challenges of the missionary encounter?
Marie-Hélène Robert
doaj   +1 more source

Money and flexible generosity.

open access: yesBritish 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Generosity and cooperation across the life span: A lab-in-the-field study.

open access: yesPsychology and Aging, 2021
Understanding persistence and changes in prosociality across the life span is fundamental to inform theory and practice. As life expectancy increases and pressing societal challenges demand increasing generosity and cooperation among individuals, it is ...
A. Romano   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Aspect of Mahāyāna Buddhist Ethics: The Culture of Generosity (dāna)

open access: yesSoshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora, 2018
Buddhist ethics deals with do and don’t pertaining to individual behavior by transforming inner mental process towards harmony of external phenomenon. The major ethical practices of Mahāyāna is the six perfections (pāramitā), viz.
Tashi Dorjey
doaj   +1 more source

Measures that increase social equality are effective in improving life satisfaction in times of economic crisis

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background The financial crisis of 2008/2009, for some also in 2011, was accompanied by increasing social inequality and unemployment, which strained the welfare generosity systems in many countries. Welfare generosity redistributes internal resources to
Jocelyne Clench-Aas, Arne Holte
doaj   +1 more source

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