Blood donors' helping behavior is driven by warm glow: More evidence for the blood donor benevolence hypothesis

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2189-2200

  Ferguson, Eamonn ^a   Taylor, Michael ^a   Keatley, David ^a   Flynn, Niall ^a   Lawrence, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BENEVOLENCE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; BLOOD DONORS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GIFT GIVING; HAPPINESS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PUNISHMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868303751     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03557.x     Document Type: Article

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