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

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...

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Main Authors: Bao, Te, Li, Xun, Xia, Congling
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179186
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English