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The science of giving : experimental approaches to the study of charity / edited by Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Christopher Y. Olivola.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series
- Society for judgment and decision making
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--Psychological aspects.
- Charities.
- Charity--Psychological aspects.
- Charity.
- Generosity--Psychological aspects.
- Generosity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Psychology Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which cannot establish causal relationships. By contrast, the chapters in this book study charity using experimental methods in which the variables of interest are experimentally manipulated. As a result, it becomes possible to identify the causal factors that underlie giving, and to design effective interve
- Contents:
- section 1. The value of giving
- section 2. The impact of social factors
- section 3. The role of emotions
- section 4. Other important influences on charitable giving.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-23402-7
- 1-135-23403-5
- 1-283-04530-3
- 9786613045300
- 0-203-86597-9
- 9780203865972
- OCLC:
- 707067598
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