Friends of Victims: Personal Experience and Prosocial Behavior

By Deborah A. Small, Uri Simonsohn. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “Knowing a victim, however, also promotes giving to other victims to whom the individual is not exposed directly (Small & Simonsohn, 2006).”
Prosocial Behavior in Intergroup Relations: How Donor Self-Construal and Recipient Group-Membership Shape Generosity (2014, background): “…play a role in charitable behavior (Fisher, Vandenbosch, and Antia 2008; Hung and Wyer 2011; Small and Loewenstein 2003; Small et al. 2007; Small and Simonsohn 2008), study 2 sought to examine whether this affective variable could provide a viable alternative explanation to the more…”
Cheapened altruism: Discounting personally affected prosocial actors (2012, unknown): “Although a personal connection is often confounded with direct self-interest, Small and Simonsohn (2008) found an effect on giving even without any possible economic or social gain.”
Microfinance Decision Making: A Field Study of Prosocial Lending (2011, unknown): “Donors target causes that help victims of the same misfortunes suffered by their friends and loved ones (Small and Simonsohn 2008).”
Motivating millennials to engage in charitable causes through social media (2014, background): “Individually focussed empathetic concern can elicit motivations aimed at alleviating suffering in a variety of situations and is a strong predictor of intentions to offer financial help (Pavey et al., 2012; Small and Simonsohn, 2008).”
The Psychology of Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims and Beyond (2015, background): “People are not only more likely to help if they are friends with the victim, but they are also more likely to help as long as one of their friends is a member of the victim group (Small & Simonsohn, 2008).”
Does social connection turn good deeds into good feelings?: On the value of putting the ‘social’ in prosocial spending (2013, background): “…on how emotion affects consumers’ propensity to donate to charity or buy cause-related products (Kogut and Ritov, 2005; Small and Loewenstein, 2003; Small and Simonsohn, 2008; Strahilevitz and Myers, 1998), we explore the impact of connection not on the initial decision to give but on the…”