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Generosity: A winner's advice [PDF]
Nature, 2008 Mathematical models can reveal how prosocial human behaviour — and even social intelligence and language — have evolved, argues Martin A. Nowak. Joining previous essays in the 'Being human' series is the latest offering, on the theme of generosity. Mathematical models predict, and experiments confirm, that generosity is an essential feature of winning ...
Martin A. Nowak
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Generosity and cooperation across the life span: A lab-in-the-field study.
Psychology 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
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Generosity Across Contexts [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists.
Alex Davis +4 more
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Subliminal influence on generosity [PDF]
Experimental Economics, 2017 AbstractWe experimentally subliminally prime subjects prior to charity donation decisions by showing words that have connotations of pro-social values for a very brief time (17 ms). Our main finding is that, compared to a baseline condition, the pro-social prime increases donations by approximately 10–17 % among subjects with strong pro-social ...
Kaisa Hytönen +7 more
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Parler de générosité dans la mission contemporaine
Warszawskie 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
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Measuring the Generosity of Parental Leave Policies
, 2021 In order to investigate and compare welfare states or specific welfare programmes, scientists, opinion‐makers and politicians rely on indicators. As many of the concepts or objects studied are somewhat abstract, these indicators can often only be ...
Adeline Otto +2 more
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An Aspect of Mahāyāna Buddhist Ethics: The Culture of Generosity (dāna)
Soshum: 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
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Journal of Applied Psychology, 2020 While social science has substantially documented the individual experience of unemployment, less is known about the role of contextual variables. One contextual factor that is important for unemployed job seekers is the unemployment insurance (UI) that ...
Connie R. Wanberg +4 more
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BMC 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
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Directed generosity and network formation: network dimension matters [PDF]
, 2010 We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a
D'Exelle, Ben, Riedl, Arno
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