secure larger donations (Study 1) and dishonest to make larger (smaller) donations to charities that supported (threatened …) the greater social good (Study 2a, Study 2b) whereas with concrete mindsets, people focused more on dishonesty for …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …

donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …

Many Americans donate little or nothing to charity. Our social environment is the cause, not human nature. Experiments … voluntary donation registry to publicize the proportion of income that individuals donate to charity. Although participation …

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean … tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …

directly. This points to an efficiency–effectiveness trade–off: even though indirect donations are less efficient than direct … donations, they are more effective in mobilizing resources. Our findings hold for ‘Fair Trade’ coffee as well as for ‘normal …