theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas impure altruism theory predicts an increase in giving with … shared the same. The results are in line with the prediction of the impure altruism theory. …

monetary contexts. -- Altruism ; generosity ; harm ; experiment …

contradict the common economic assumption that people maximize their own payoffs. Here we take the approach that human altruism … relationships based on reciprocity. We test whether relational models theory can explain altruism in the dictator game, a standard … method for observing altruism. For each relational model, we manipulate its key variable (need, power, or reciprocity) by …

A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …

We explore the extent to which altruism, as measured by giving in a dictator game (DG), accounts for play in a noisy … to be the key determinant of how play varies with the parameters of the repeated game. In particular, altruism does not …

intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … these two estimates to quantify the portion of giving in T3 due to pure altruism and find it to be between 20% and 26% of …