Dual-process reasoning in charitable giving: learning from non-results
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Dual-process reasoning in charitable giving: learning from non-results
zbMATH Open document ID: 1410.91153
author: Zachary Grossman
author: Joël J. Van der Weele
published in: Games
publication date: 2018-08-13T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: To identify dual-process reasoning in giving, we exposed experimental participants making a charitable donation to vivid images of the charity's beneficiaries in order to stimulate affect. We hypothesized that the effect of an affective manipulation on giving would be larger when we simultaneously put the subjects under cognitive load using a numerical recall task. Independent treatment checks reveal opposite responses in men and women and cast some doubt on the reliability of our mainstream treatment manipulations and assessment tools. We find no evidence for dual-process decision-making, even among women, whose responses to the manipulations conformed most to our expectations. These results highlight the need for caution in the use of these common manipulations, the importance of independent manipulation checks, and the limitations of dual-process models for understanding altruistic behavior.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A26
zbMATH DE Number: 6916611
zbMATH Keywords: cognitive load
zbMATH Keywords: dual-process
zbMATH Keywords: charitable giving
zbMATH Keywords: dictator games
zbMATH Keywords: experimental economics
describes a project that uses: Z-Tree
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: g8030036
OpenAlex ID: W3124803328
cites work: Helping a victim or helping the victim: Altruism and identifiability
DOI: 10.3390/G8030036
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6916611