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SUBMITTER: Dickert S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4747588 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dickert Stephan S Kleber Janet J Västfjäll Daniel D Slovic Paul P
PloS one 20160209 2
One of the puzzling phenomena in philanthropy is that people can show strong compassion for identified individual victims but remain unmoved by catastrophes that affect large numbers of victims. Two prominent findings in research on charitable giving reflect this idiosyncrasy: The (1) identified victim and (2) victim number effects. The first of these suggests that identifying victims increases donations and the second refers to the finding that people's willingness to donate often decreases as ...[more]