Social life is regulated by norms of fairness that constrain selfish behavior. While a substantial body of scholarship on prosocial behavior has provided evidence of such norms, large inter- and intra-personal variation in prosocial behavior still needs to be explained. The article identifies two social-structural dimensions along which people's generosity varies systematically: group attachmen...

Previous indirect evidence suggests that impulses towards pro-social behavior are diminished when an external authority is responsible for an outcome. The responsibility-alleviation effect states that a shift of responsibility to an external authority dampens internal impulses towards honesty, loyalty, or generosity. In a gift-exchange experiment, we find that subjects respond with more generos...

Under the backdrop of pandemic COVID-19, people have different predictions future condition and understanding current status. In this paper, findings from an online experiment show how overconfidence can play important role in terms decision-making pandemic: among main data analysis, self significantly increases donations. Also, with growth age, tend to donate more while as they advance educati...