Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5046256 Journal of Research in Personality 2016 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Individualizing intuitions predicted intentions to donate to outgroup members.•Individualizing intuitions predicted self-reported and actual donations to charities.•Binding intuitions predicted lower intentions to donate and lower donations overall.•But binding intuitions predicted higher self-reported donations to medical research.•Whether the charities benefit ingroups or outgroups may affect who donates to them.

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.

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