Life is too short to be small: an experiment on mortality salience and prosocial behavior

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Bao, Te, Li, Xun, Xia, Congling
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Social Sciences; Mortality salience; Social behavior
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179186

We study how mortality salience influences people's time preference and prosocial behavior in a laboratory experiment. We made mortality salient through priming subjects in the treatment group with grid tasks, and studied its impact on altruistic giving in an Andreoni-Miller dictator game. We f...