Nonprofits address some of the world's most pressing problems, and many rely on donations
to fund their essential work. Nonprofit marketers are, therefore, tasked with promoting …

Researchers and practitioners in the area of charitable giving have long lamented the
tendency to offer greater aid to one person who is suffering rather than to a large group with …

The present research explores the distinct effects of animalistic and mechanistic
dehumanization on willingness to help natural disaster victims. We examined J apanese …

This contribution summarizes the literature on the psychology of charitable donations to
victims of disasters and other unfortunate circumstances. Four distinct research areas are …

The question of how donors decide which charities to support, as opposed to questions
about whether to give and how much to give, has been under-researched. This article …

We conducted a field study to test whether the common ingroup identity model (Gaertner &
Dovidio, 2000, reducing intergroup bias: The common ingroup identity model. Philadelphia …

Abstract The Ball State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies in the United States
has compiled altruistic stories from different countries such as India, Australia, the United …

The effects of group memberships of disaster victims and perpetrators on charitable
donations were measured. In Study 1 (N= 92), victim group membership was experimentally …

This paper tests the effects of lay beliefs that disaster victims who have been victimised by
other events in the past will cope better with a new adverse event than first‐time victims. It is …

Sharing information about disasters and victims on social media can help raise situational
awareness, enhance issue-related knowledge, promote prosocial behaviors and rebuild a …