Affective motivations to help others: A two-stage model of donation decisions

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 361-376

  Dickert, Stephan ^a   Sagara, Namika ^b   Slovic, Paul ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Donations; Information processing; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751511363     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.697     Document Type: Article

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