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Empathy Leads to Increased Online Charitable Behaviour When Time is the Currency

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Farrelly, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1505-686X and Bennett, Michael (2018) Empathy Leads to Increased Online Charitable Behaviour When Time is the Currency. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 28 (1). pp. 42-46. ISSN Print: 1052-9284 Online: 1099-1298

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Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.23...

Abstract

This study shows how the empathy-altruism hypothesis can affect helping behaviour where time spent is the currency, through the novel use of a real world charity. Using an online charity task (www.freerice.com) we show that inducing empathy and also anger cause participants to spend more time donating rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. These findings therefore supports the empathy-altruism hypothesis, and adds to previous research that have mainly used artificial and/or hypothetical scenarios by further showing that its effects can be applied to real world scenarios where helping behaviours are beneficial.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of the online published article via the online Library Search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	empathy, online charitable behaviour, time, altruism
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
Related URLs:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1...
Depositing User:	Daniel Farrelly
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2017 09:05
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2020 10:15
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5947

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