Empathy leads to increased online charitable behaviour when time is the currency

Bibliographic Data

ID12396107
AuthorsDaniel Farrelly (0000-0003-1505-686X, St Johns Campus, Psychology University of Worcester Worcester UK, corresponding author), Michael Bennett (0000-0003-0803-2798, St Johns Campus, Psychology University of Worcester Worcester UK)
Year2017
Volume28
Issue1
Pages42-46
Publication date2017-10-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1052-9284 • E-ISSN: 1099-1298
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/casp.2339
OpenAlexW2764271294
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited19

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 support the empathy–altruism hypothesis and add 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

Affect (linguistics · Altruism (biology · Anger · Currency · Economics · Empathy · Monetary economics · Sympathy · Task (project management · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology

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