Choice-justifications after allocating resources in helping dilemmas

How do donors reason and justify their choices when faced with dilemmas in a charitable context? In two studies, Swedish students were confronted with helping dilemmas based on the identifiable victim effect, the proportion dominance effect and the ingroup effect. Each dilemma consisted of two compa...

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Main Authors: Arvid Erlandsson, Fredrik Björklund, Martin Bäckström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2017-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15410/jdm15410.pdf