Cheapened altruism: Discounting personally affected prosocial actors

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-274

  Lin Healy, Fern ^a   Small, Deborah A ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Charitable giving; Charity; Donations; Evaluations; Motive inference; Prosocial behavior; Selfishness; Trait perceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856253387     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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