Sympathy and callousness: The impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims.
By Deborah A. Small, George Loewenstein, Paul Slovic. 2007
949 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- Adam M. Grant
- P. Sol Hart
- Paul Slovic
- George Loewenstein
- Deborah A. Small
- Hengchen Dai
- Dennis J. Zhang
- Shaun Gallagher
In Safety Research
- Adam M. Grant
- Pamala Wiepking
- Paul Slovic
- Cynthia Cryder
- P. Sol Hart
- George Loewenstein
- Hengchen Dai
- Dennis J. Zhang
In Sociology and Political Science
- K. White
- Pamala Wiepking
- Cynthia Cryder
- Paul Slovic
- K. Winterich
- P. Sol Hart
- David G. Rand
- René Bekkers
Citations in the corpus
- The effect of effectiveness: Donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment (2017, methodology): “Our model is inspired by research that deliberation can interfere with emotional impulses for giving ( Small, Loewenstein, and Slovic 2007 ).”
- One or Many? The Influence of Episodic and Thematic Climate Change Frames on Policy Preferences and Individual Behavior Change (2011, background): “Small et al. (2007) did find that individuals donated less to an identifiable victim paired with statistics than to an identified victim alone, but this pattern may be reversed if the individuals are considering policies addressing an issue in which they cannot directly help the victim.”
- Giving from a distance: Putting the charitable organization at the center of the donation appeal (2013, background): “Correspondingly, researchers as well as charitable organizations act on the assumption that people contribute more to an “identifiable victim” ting the charitable organization at the center of the donation appeal, Journal of than to “statistical victims” (Small et al., 2007).”
- I'm Moral, but I Won't Help You: The Distinct Roles of Empathy and Justice in Donations (2014, methodology): “The present research extends existing work on charitable giving (Shang et al. 2008; Small et al. 2007; White and Peloza 2009; Winterich at al.”
- Modeling the interplay between affect and deliberation. (2015, result): “A recent study by Small et al. (2007) provides further support for our perspective on the role of identifiability.”
- Microfinance Decision Making: A Field Study of Prosocial Lending (2011, positive): “Such features might push lenders to treat the decision in a more calculative manner, which could override psychological or emotional drivers (see Small, Loewenstein, and Slovic 2007).”