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The congruency between moral foundations and intentions to donate, self-reported donations, and actual donations to charity

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Author

  • Artur Nilsson
  • Arvid Erlandsson
  • Daniel Västfjäll

Summary, in English

We extend past research on the congruency between moral foundations and morally relevant outcomes to ingroup- and outgroup-focused charitable giving. We measured intentions to donate to outgroup members (begging EU-migrants) and self-reported donations to ingroup (medical research) and outgroup (international aid) charity organizations in a heterogeneous sample (N = 1008) and actual donations to ingroup (cancer treatment) and outgroup (hunger relief) organizations in two experimental studies (N = 126; N = 200). Individualizing intuitions predicted helping in general across self-report and behavioral data. Binding intuitions predicted higher donations to ingroup causes, lower donations to outgroup causes, and less intentions to donate to outgroup members in the self-report data, and they predicted lower donations overall in the behavioral data.

Publishing year

2016-11-15

Language

English

Pages

22-29

Publication/Series

Journal of Research in Personality

Volume

65

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • moral foundations
  • moral intuitions
  • ideology
  • charity
  • helping
  • donation
  • moral hypocrisy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0092-6566