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 is larger when we simultaneously put...

We consider the problem of maximizing charity donations with personalized recommendations on crowd-sourcing platforms, when donor preferences are unknown. One salient feature of these platforms is that campaign recommendations do not always result in a donation. A donation is observed only when...