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2025, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

4 experiments concerned with helping behavior were conducted. 3 were addressed to the effects of altruistic models upon helping, while 1 was concerned with the impact of the solicitor's race upon donations. 3 investigations employed as a site parking lots of 2 large department stores in New Jersey, and indexed helping by contributions to the Salvation Army. A 4th experiment indexed helping by offers of aid by passing motorists to a woman with a disabled vehicle. Whether one employed motorists in California or shoppers in New Jersey, the results were quite consistent. The presence of a helping model significantly increased helping behavior. As race of the Salvation Army solicitor did affect the percentage of donors willing to contribute money, it was concluded that interpersonal attraction is a relevant variable affecting donations. Recently, concern has been evidenced regarding the determinants and correlates of altruistic behavior, those acts wherein individuals share or sacrifice a presumed positive reinforcer for no apparent social or material gain, Studies addressed to these behaviors have explored both individual differences in the tendency to be altruistic and the situational determinants of such responses. found that students at a southern Negro college were more likely to volunteer for a social protest movement if they perceived sources of reinforcement as internally rather than externally guided. Subjects high on internal control were more likely to volunteer as freedom riders, marchers, or petition signers than subjects who perceived

2025, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

There has been a rapid proliferation of empirical research on the relationship between sport participation and mental health. As a result of this movement, there has been an increased focus on the constructs that can predict or explain mental health outcomes in sport. Psychological safety in sport is among the constructs surfaced in the movement. Despite this, there is a considerable lack of conceptual clarity regarding how to define psychological safety and how it can be fostered in sport. As such, the aim of this study was to provide conceptual clarity of the term psychological safety in the context of sport. To achieve this aim, we first systematically searched for all currently available studies that have discussed psychological safety in a sport context. Then, a concept analysis approach was applied wherein the definitions, attributes, antecedents, and consequences were thematically analysed across 67 studies. As a result of this synthesis, psychological safety in sport was conceptualised as a continuous, group level construct that is perceived (and reported) at an individual level. We also provide a descriptive model of psychological safety in sport that we hope lends clarity and debate to the field moving forward.

2025

In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of defaults on charitable giving. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a default list of five well-known charities; in the control group we do not provide the list. In a sample of 869 subjects we find that offering a list of default charities doubles both the fraction of donors and the aggregate amount of donations. These findings point to the importance of psychological factors like affective reactions in donation decisions.

2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

2025, Cornell University Press eBooks

Electrifica tion, tricity.' Such increased innovation is a standard response by an old technology under assault from a new technology. 1 0 Kerosene lamps illuminated the streets of 80 percent of Russia' s cost-conscious municipalities, compared with 14 percent for electricity and 10 percent for gas in 1910. In St. Petersburg, 47 percent of the 18,000 lamps in 1914 were gas, 37 percent kerosene, and 16 percent electric.ll Russian cities differed from Western cities not in the low percentage of electrified lights-St. Petersburg had more arc lamps absolutely and by percentage than Paris or Berlin-but in the use of kerosene lamps. Even in 1910, most town governments considered electric lighting as the street light for the future .12 In 1880, electricity suffered from high cost and extensive accom panying technical equipment compared with kerosene; electricity' s advantages were a better quality of light, safety, and hygiene. Three decades later, kerosene was still the main competitor, cost the major objection to electric lighting, and ignorance still widespread.13

2025, Watermelon Publishers

Actual examples of charity and Hospitaller work within the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem and the men and women behind this international Lazarite confraternity.

2025

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we find an increase in donations until the age of 13-14, but not beyond. We find no effect of social information on average donation behavior in any of the studied age-groups, but do find effects on the distributions of donations.

2025

The research examined prosperity gospel preaching or teaching and its implications on the poor. It discussed its historical origin and noted that it was birthed in United States of America in the nineteenth century and now spreading in the Nigerian churches and society like wild fire. The information for the paper was derived from primary and secondary sources. However, the researcher showed that most scriptural references made in support of prosperity gospel are placed out of context, thus, giving a false impression and interpretation about what the Bible really teaches. The findings of the research indicated that, prosperity gospel in a way gives one a sense of hope, direction and reassurance that the life one lives can get better if one can only apply certain biblical principles correctly. Equally, it was observed that the prosperity preachers or teachers are quite correct in pointing believers to God and the wonderful promises made in his word in order to get their needs met. However, many of these preachers have turned the table of the gospel round for self or selfish advantages and thereby impoverishing their congregation the more rather than improving their lots. This in-turn has reduced the capacity of the people and thereby affected national developments in terms of socio-economic, psycho-spiritual and physical developments. The mind of many Nigerians has so much been corrupted to pursue wealth at the expense of the things of God which has eternal values. Hence, the research paper recommended that the focus of gospel preachers today should rather address soteriology of man.

2025, Journal of the European Economic Association

We build an occupational-choice general-equilibrium model with for-pro t rms, non-pro t organizations, and endogenous private warm-glow donations. Lack of monitoring on the use of funds implies that an increase of funds of the non-pro t sector (because of a higher income in the forpro t sector, a stronger preference for giving, or an in ow of foreign aid) worsens the motivational composition and performance of the non-pro t sector. We also analyze the conditions under which donors (through linking donations to the motivational composition of the non-pro t sector), nonpro ts themselves (through peer monitoring), or the government (using a tax-nanced public funding of non-pro ts) can eliminate the low-effectiveness equilibrium. We present supporting case-study evidence from developing-country NGO sector and humanitarian emergencies. (JEL: L31, D64, J24, D5) The editor in charge of this paper was Paola Giuliano. Acknowledgments: We thank Nicola Gennaioli and Paola Giuliano (co-editors), four anonymous referees,

2025

The University of Kent stands proudly on land that was originally a gift to Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, from King AEthelberht of Kent. The philanthropic heritage at its heart and in its very foundations continued, as the university was built with the aid of gifts from local people, businesses and charities. It has been a prominent institution within the county since it first opened its doors in 1965; yet the philanthropy that continues to spur the University’s development has never received due recognition. Hidden History: Philanthropy at the University of Kent contributes to the historic legacy of the University, highlighting its many achievements and the gifts of time, money and effort that enabled them. It also contributes to debates about the changing role of philanthropy in higher education, as we progress towards an increasingly international and business-like higher education marketplace. This book is a Beacon project, produced in celebration of the 50th Annive...

2025

entertaining office mates Aniol, Davide, Benedetto, Tomas and Toni that made ours the best PhD office. I am also grateful to Petya and Joro for fighting Stata with me, to Aniol, Julian and Geronimo for helping me with the experiments and to Davide for solving my random IT issues. Barcelona was an amazing place to explore with all of you. Thanks to Gerry for encouraging me to cross the finish line. And to my Mum, Dad and my brother for simply everything. I dedicate this thesis to them.

2025, Théologie Évangélique

2025, The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal

Social economy and social entrepreneurship are concepts subject of much debate in the academic environment, as their importance is growing in the present times, when the public sector and business environment alike have demonstrated their incapacity to solve specific social problems, such as conserving local traditions and biodiversity or insertion into the labour market of people from vulnerable groups. This article focuses on social entrepreneurs, by aiming to identify their main motivations in the founding and development of a social enterprise, as well as the main challenges faced in their social entrepreneurial activity in a constantly changing business environment. The paper presents a qualitative research conducted on Romanian social entrepreneurs. The results, interpreted through content analysis, indicate that social entrepreneurs, unlike business entrepreneurs, are not profit-driven, but mission driven, their main objective being to make a difference in the society and hav...

2025, Author eBooks

Since Giving Tuesday was introduced in 2012, it has inspired more than 1billionindonations.Lastyear,estimatedgivingtopped1 billion in donations. Last year, estimated giving topped 1billionindonations.Lastyear,estimatedgivingtopped300 million. These numbers sound big -and they are. But they obscure the fact that relatively few individuals and families make charitable contributions: For example, in a typical year 45 percent of Americans give not even a single dollar, and 75 percent spend no time volunteering. And this is a shame, because giving is an important way to help others, contribute to the public good and build the trust that glues a society together. One important step to encouraging more people to give is increasing our understanding of what motivates giving. When we better understand why people donate, we can be inspired to be more generous. Charitable giving involves a complex array of motivations. I recently reviewed 14 projects funded by the University of Notre Dame's Science of Generosity initiative that studied the manifestations, causes and consequences of giving. Researchers found that even twins, despite their similar genetic makeup, behaved differently based on their ability to take on the perspective of another person. Some people give because of tax incentives (which may explain why charitable giving was down a bit last year: Changes in the tax code made giving less advantageous for some families). A second motive also has to do with economics: Many people feel they simply can't afford to give. Their willingness to give also depends on whether they view charitable organizations as honest and efficient. People can also give simply because they want to make the world a better place. In my research, I've discovered that the most compelling reasons for people to give are social and relational benefits beyond the self. My colleague Heather E. Price and I found that people exist in a web of giving affiliations. People are more likely to give to charitable and religious causes when they have parents who were givers and partners who are supportive of giving, and when religious affiliations regularly expose them to religious-based calls to give. Living within generous social contexts matters. So, too, do friend groups. My colleague Song Yang and I found that people are more likely to donate when they have friends who donate and who ask them to donate. As individuals it is important to see that there is no magical time in life when one suddenly becomes prepared to give, by having more money left to spend or more time on one's hands. Many people assume that as students they are too busy to volunteer, or as a young parents they are too financially squeezed to donate. But in my research, I learned that there are constraints on time and money at every stage in life. We can motivate ourselves to give throughout our lives, in whatever ways one can, by surrounding ourselves in giving-supportive contexts. We also need to be that giving-supportive context for others.

2025, Theorising the Nigerian Stage

The value orientations of individualism and collectivism are poles apart. Individualism focuses on self-distinctiveness, while collectivism focuses on interpersonal relationships. People’s participation in group engagement shapes their psyches, which in turn creates their cultural environment. In this sense, culture and mind are mutually reinforcing. This study interrogates the interplay of individualism and collectivism in Stephen Inegbe’s Things Men Do. Leaning on the contextual relationship that links individualism/collectivism with cultural psychology, this study adopts the qualitative analytical approach to provide insights about individualism and collectivism in the play text. It presents that individualism and collectivism have profound roots that influence various behavioural patterns. These include disparities in self-perception, variations in cognitive behaviour, variations in motivation and behaviour, and variations in interpersonal relationships. It further submits that the interplay of individualism and collectivism in a given community can create a vibrant and dynamic atmosphere and when people collaborate to achieve shared objectives, they each feel empowered as distinct individuals.

2025

In the early sixties of the 4th century CE, the Emperor Julian wrote in a letter to Arsacius, one of his pagan high priests in Asia Minor, that considerable amounts of corn and wine should be distributed to the inhabitants of Galatia, that one-fifth of it should be given to the poor (tous penêtas) and the rest to strangers and beggars (tois xenois kai tois metaitousin). And then he adds: "For it is a shame that, when no Jew ever has to beg (metaitei) and the impious Galilaeans [=Christians] support not only their own poor but ours as well, all men can see that our people lack aid from us."1 If a person who is so well at home in both the pagan and the non-pagan world of late antiquity as Julian makes such a statement, there is every reason to investigate whether there was indeed a major difference between polytheists and monotheists as far as organized care for the poor is concerned. It should not surprise us if he is found to be right. It is 75 years ago that my fellow-countryman, the Utrecht professor of ancient history Hendrik Bolkestein, published his magisterial study Wohltätigkeit und Armenpflege im vorchristlichen Altertum.2 In this influential work, he offers a penetrating analysis of the ancient Greek and Roman views on poverty and charity, and he also studies how these views influenced the practice of daily life. In the short sketch that follows, I am much indebted to Bolkestein's work, even though sometimes I disagree with him. He argues that there is a fundamental difference between the position of the poor in Graeco-Roman culture, both in theory and in practice, and their position in ancient Israel and early Judaism.3

2025

As fundraising becomes more competitive, charitable organizations increasingly invest in maximizing the effectiveness of their appeals. The present study shows that, all else being equal, a campaign photo portraying victims who do not seem to be engaged in any form of self-help will elicit lower donations compared with a photo that triggers the perception that victims are taking action to address their circumstances. Campaigns may be more successful if they use images that do not show victims rather than images of victims not engaged in self-help.

2025, LASU Journal of Religions & Peace Studies

Peace is a universal aspiration for societies worldwide, as it underpins development, harmonious
coexistence, and the smooth functioning of communities. Yet, achieving a truly peaceful society often seems unattainable. This article examines the intersection of peace and social justice through
a biblical analysis of Hebrews 12:14. In this verse, the author urges believers to “pursue peace with
all men,” emphasizing its essential role in the Christian faith. The study looked into Dapo Asaju’s
thought on social change which emphasizes “brotherhood rather than religion or ethnicity”. It further investigates the relevance of this biblical perspective for contemporary social change movements, including nonviolent resistance, restorative justice, and community development. It argues
that the pursuit of peace is not merely a moral obligation but also a form of social justice aimed at
transforming the social, economic, and political systems that sustain conflict and the inequality.
Using analytical and sociological methods, the findings reveal that the Bible views living peacefully
not only as a prerequisite for spiritual fulfillment but also as a critical form of social justice necessary for societal advancement. The study concludes that peace is indispensable for meaningful social transformation and recommends the application of the biblical principles in Hebrews 12:14 as
a framework for social change.
Keywords: peace, pursuit, social justice, social change, Hebrews 12:14

2025, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

By drawing from authors' fieldwork in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey, this article critically examines perceptions of project-think among civic organizations in the Middle East. As a managerial rationality, project-think has four key components: (a) a prioritization of discrete needs and discrete groups, (b) an orientation toward funding, (c) a focus on short-term and measurable results, and (d) the positioning of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as career ladders. Through unpacking these four components, we find that project-think is perceived to contribute to the fragmentation of civil society by fracturing social issues, dividing the NGO sector, isolating organizational energy, and complicating relations between groups. Simultaneously, we demonstrate that, civic actors use various strategies to circumvent the perceived impacts of fragmentation. By mapping these intertwined meanings and experiences of fragmentation and defragmentation, this study contributes to debates concerning the political effects of managerialism among civil society in the Global South.

2025

Le RC3 est un réseau d'entités et d'initiatives créées au sein du Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, qui se consacrent entièrement ou partiellement à la recherche, aux méthodologies scientifiques, aux outils ou aux activités de production de connaissances. Outre la mise en relation de leurs compétences spécifiques, les membres du RC3 unissent leurs forces pour soutenir le Mouvement international dans la réalisation de ses objectifs et missions communautaires,

2025, Anuario de Estudios Medievales

El presente trabajo se centra en analizar cómo el concejo sevillano trató de influir en la red viaria del territorio bajo su jurisdicción, a través de favorecer a ciertos recorridos y vetar el uso de otros por parte de viajeros, comerciantes y mercaderes. Así mismo, se atiende a las fricciones que estas políticas causaron con otras entidades territoriales colindantes y su resolución, además de estudiar las estrategias llevadas a cabo por algunas poblaciones sevillanas para evitar verse aisladas de los principales ejes de comunicación.

2025

I am also highly indebted to my dissertation chair, Dr. Michael K. Price. He never gave up on me even during times that I wanted to give up, and he demonstrated patience even during the times when I did not follow his advice. I am also thankful for his endless positive attitude, encouragement, and unwavering advice. To the rest of my committee, I thank you for your time, effort, and imparted knowledge and wisdom. Dr. H. Spencer Banzhaf always gave me the necessary time required to help me understand the theory behind my methodology and served as an invaluable resource throughout graduate school. Dr. Kyle Mangum provided excellent comments and ideas to help solidify and complete the story my research tells. Finally, Dr. Nancy K. Kropf served as a tremendous resource to make my research more appealing to a broader audience. I must also thank the administration, administrative staff, and fellow students of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Bess Blyler worked tirelessly on my behalf, especially during the job market period. Finally, I could always count on my fellow peers to offer encouragement when I needed it, to challenge my ideas when my thinking was questionable, and to provide friendship when graduate school was overwhelming. I must single out Hal Martin and Elena Andreyeva, my cubicle mates, for their ability to make graduate school fun. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .

2025

This paper draws on a survey and interview data, collected from a group of 180 donors who made monetary gifts to an Australian higher education institution, to better understand what drives individuals and organisations to donate to Indigenous initiatives. The analysis helped to identify five types of donors: the Advocate and Prescriptive donors, the supporter types who donate to Australian Indigenous initiatives and the Constrained, Reserved and Opposing donors, non-supporter types who withhold from donating to such initiatives. The results show a wide range of motivations, varied attitudes and multiple perceived barriers to donating to Australian Indigenous initiatives. The study reveals that while some donors do engage and reflect on issues around the role of philanthropy in achieving positive outcomes for Indigenous people, others' motivations and barriers to donating confirm the concerns of scholars who have shown how philanthropy can maintain inequality and colonial practices. This paper also provides practical implications for developing a reflexive approach to philanthropy that supports Indigenous initiatives. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

2025, Oxford Economic Papers

Charitable giving has increasingly become 'tough love' -it has come to require recipients to undertake costly prior action. A common justification is that of greater efficiency: willingness to undertake costly actions signals greater productivity from transfers. However, there is a trade-off. Conditions impose a cost, since the activities required are by themselves welfare reducing for at least some of the beneficiaries. We present a simple model to demonstrate that, if the distribution of recipient types is unknown, recipient costs are indivisible and productivity unobservable, conditional charity, once instituted, may not yield information adequate to refute its efficiency claim. Consequently, donors who inefficiently provide conditional charity will not correct themselves. Donors who wrongly provide unconditional charity may however subsequently correct themselves. We thus offer grounds for scepticism regarding efficiency claims for conditional charity. Our analysis also provides reasons for encouraging donor multiplicity.

2025

Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a significant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and organize remedial education. But... more

2025, Acta Globalis Humanitatis et Linguarum ISSN: 3030-1718

Digital Health Marketing Charity Advocacy Nonprofit Organizations This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Acta Globalis Humanitatis et Linguarum ISSN 3030-1718 resources, training), intervening or demographic characteristics (age, gender, education) and consequences or trust-building (opportunism, willingness, performance) were constructed. Conclusion: With the expansion of technology, digital health marketing is the missing link in attracting good support. The set of advantages of digital technologies and the existence of areas for their expansion have led to a tendency to use digital health marketing tools and tactics to gain the support of the public through digital health marketing.

2025, Cuadernos de Trabajo Social

Third sector food aid resources have responded to food insecurity situations in rich countries. A certain problematization of said insecurity has brought about certain conveniences of a secondary order, such as the profitability that the food industry achieves with the recommodification of donated food or that would otherwise be wasted, and the de-responsibilization of governments with respect to the right to food. This problematization helps to perpetuate the assistentialist entity of resources. However, the biased view of poverty, which appears to be easy to compensate through these channels, has had harmful effects on users. The assistance-oriented nature of the aforementioned food aid resources stigmatizes and reinforces exclusion. It also offers us important information about the quality of welfare systems. The methodological framework of the What's the problem Represented to Be (WPR), through a series of questions, helps us investigate the roots of the construction of the prevailing problematization, explore the taken-for-granted truths, and offers us keys for debate, as well as for an alternative problematization. As a main conclusion, this work suggests that it is necessary to repoliticize the link between food insecurity and aid resources, problematize food poverty in light of the right to food, avoiding stigma and taking care of inclusion pathways.

2025, Asian Academy of Management Journal

This research investigates the factors affecting the internet giving behaviour among young graduates in Malaysia. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was employed as a baseline theory to examine the effects of altruism, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control. The analysis was based on 230 respondents surveyed and the results showed that all factors examined were instrumental in determining the internet giving behaviour. The study contributions are narrowed to the variables studied, specific geographical location and the context as well. The results provide valuable insights for university management to better plan charitable contributions drawn from the platform of internet giving. Similarly, the results help to improve the role of bank managers to stimulate internet banking use among young graduates for charitable giving purposes. This study extends the TPB's applicability to include internet giving behaviour in a Malaysian context.

2025

In april van dit jaar deden wij onderzoek naar de maatschappelijke gevolgen van COVID-19 voor Nederlanders en meer specifiek Rotterdammers en Hagenaars. Die bleken aanzienlijk. Velen waren bang voor baan- of inkomensverlies en zagen COVID-19 als een bedreiging voor zichzelf, hun vrienden en familie, hun stad en voor heel Nederland. Twee maanden later, in de eerste helft van juli 2020, deden we opnieuw onderzoek naar de gevolgen van het coronavirus voor Nederlanders, waarbij we behalve over Rotterdam en Den Haag nu ook verslag doen over hoe Amsterdammers de gevolgen van het virus ervaren. De context waarin de tweede meting plaatsvond was heel anders dan die van deeerste meting. Begin juli nam het aantal besmettingen en ziekenhuisopnames snel af en de overheid versoepelde de maatregelen die eerder getroffen waren om de verspreiding van het virus tegen te gaan. De vraag is hoe Nederlanders de gevolgen van COVID-19 in deze veranderde context ervaren. Dit onderzoek laat zien dat de coron...

2025

More than 40 years after the Revolution of April 25, it is urgent to look at this moment and try to understand the dynamics of the moment and why there was no significant tension between the governments resulting from this revolutionary movement and the Catholic Church. Specifically, in this text we analyze some texts of the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, António Ribeiro, perceiving how the central structure of the Catholic Church prepared the social interaction with the social issues raised by the revolution. In fact, prior to the revolution, Antonio Ribeiro already raised some of the issues that would later be central to the revolutionary movement, as well as being in consonance with the revolutionary movement in some of his homilies and letters immediately after the revolution.

2025

This is a Pentecostal response to the Doctrines taught in the book 35 Questions for Those Who Hate the Prosperity Gospel.

2025

For once I would like to be asked for my professional expertise, instead of just my checkbook. The nonprofit sector could learn a lot from the business world and it would make us professional donors feel much more at ease at giving to nonprofits if we knew they were widening their scope of knowledge. For example, why doesn't the ED take out a group of 3-5 area businesswomen for a working lunch, with genuine interest in utilizing the advice we put forth?

2025

There is no way to fully acknowledge the many people that have made the completion of a Ph.D. possible, but there are a few people who warrant special mention for their support along the way. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents, Judee and Michael Burgoon. Thank you for providing me full support and guidance as I navigated my way through several career paths before landing back in a Ph.D. program in psychology, and for continuing to support me when the Ph.D. program turned me onto a non-academic career path in the technology industry. Throughout countless discussions of career possibilities, you never once wavered in supporting whatever decision would be best for me. Moreover, thank you for the intellectual and practical guidance -from designing research questions to writing up results to navigating departmental policies and proceduresthroughout the last four years. I am a rare and lucky student that can go to her parents for substantive advice on all aspects of being in a graduate program. I would also like to thank my Ph.D. advisor at the University of Texas at Austin, Marlone D. Henderson. Thank you for your mentorship and guidance in training me to understand, evaluate, and carry out scientific research. Moreover, thank you for fostering a sense of creativity and calculated risk-taking in the pursuit of scientific truth. Finally, thank you for constantly keeping my "eye on the real world" in my approach to answering scientific questions. Indeed, it was that approach that attracted me to pursing a Ph.D. under your guidance, and it is what drives me as I head into the world of applied research. Next, I would like to thank James Pennebaker, who has been a wonderful collaborator, teacher, and committee member while I have been at University of Texas. Thank you for asking "so what?" in evaluating the merit of scientific work. That question vi not only guided my intellectual pursuits while in the program, but also set my thought process toward a career where I could see a tangible "so what" in my everyday work. Moreover, thank you for creating a classroom environment that was exciting, intellectually and personally engaging, and thought-provoking. It was your class on the psychology of language and the potential of big data to garner psychological insight that inspired me to "take the leap" to an industry career. I would also be remiss if I did not thank Choudur Lakshminarayan, whose mentorship and guidance during my internship at Hewlett Packard has uniquely prepared me for a fruitful career in the industry. Thank you for seeing my potential, not only to bring psychological insight to our statistical algorithm work, but also to broaden my statistical and computational horizons. Further, thank you for advocating on my behalf so that I could continue learning and honing my skills under your guidance throughout this past academic year. Although all of graduate students in the social and personality area of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin have been integral in my success, one student in particular warrants special consideration. Gili Freedman, there are no words to articulate how invaluable your social, emotional, and intellectual support has been to me over the course of the last four years. You have provided me with sage advice, delicious desserts and food, and plenty of humor during the most stressful times of my graduate career. Without your support, I would not be submitting this dissertation. Finally, I want to thank my partner, Meryl Baker, who could not have come into my life at a more perfect time. The emotional and social support that you have provided in the last year cannot be measured. As we move forward in life, I hope I am able to repay just a fraction of the love that you have given to me as I've completed my Ph.D. vii There are many simply too many other friends and family that have supported me across that years to mention them all. Whether you were there in the Residential College at University of Michigan, a coworker or friend while I was figuring out my life path in San Diego, or one of the many friends I have had in the Austin community, I want to express my sincere gratitude for every moment -both positive or negative -that we've shared. I've carried you all with me throughout my Ph.D. program and will continue to do so on my next journey in life. Thank you all.

2025

Enhancing civil society organizations’ financial capacities is a public policy objective in Türkiye. This objective has often been stated in development plans, which constitute fundamental policy documents. The most recent Twelfth Development Plan (2024-2028) reiterates this objective and explicitly lists financial regulations to be introduced in the fiscal area in order to contribute to the financial sustainability of civil society organizations, among the measures to be taken for this purpose. Carried out within the scope of the Monitoring Freedom of Association Project, which was implemented through the cooperation between the Third Sector Foundation of Türkiye (TÜSEV) and the Association of Civil Society Development Center (STGM) and funded by the European Union Delegation to Türkiye, our study aims to formulate legal design proposals regarding the financial reform regulations in question, by means of the research findings obtained through qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as comparative law methodology.

2024, Sower Media

The governance of churches has progressed significantly, influenced by societal changes and secular regulatory bodies such as charity commissions and non-governmental organisations. While these bodies ensure accountability and protection, they often challenge the spiritual essence of the church. This paper examines church governance in light of biblical principles, focusing on generosity as a key indicator of spiritual health. It argues that coerced giving undermines the church’s mission, and that true generosity reflects one’s alignment with the vision of the gospel. Discipleship, stewardship, and communal responsibility are presented as essential remedies to modern challenges of individualism and want.

2024, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

2024, Ganpat Univrsity

Fascinating individual donors toward fund donation and getting their continuous donations has become one of the major grasps in the present day. Donation is something that gives personal good experience for someone who is donating. Donation can be money for charity, goods, blood and other body organs donation for humanity and to a cause. Anyone can take part in donation for both positive and negative approaches. But there is a choice for the person who wants to donate which can be either donation of money or goods to the cause and transplanting organs, charities to nonprofit organization.
Individual donation is giving charity that is given in the form of gifts or money to the cause. Individual donation is mainly done in the religious perception and poverty alleviation in developing countries in the history.
People donate to express themselves generous to the cause and reduction of the tax from their income and be in the good position in the society. People believe that donation is given by wealthy people, who are wealthy status in the society but if we study the charities are mostly given by the poor or religious people. Donations can be given nationally and internationally, indirect or direct to the people around us. There is both merits and demerits of giving direct donation, there will be clear transition of money and know how the money has been used whereas the money given to charity organization, you will never know where the money has gone, you will not know that how much money is given to what extend and to what cause or areas?
The perception of individual donation may vary from person to person in different countries. Each and every individual are encouraged by the society. They want to do better for the society and people in the country. Individual donors are inspired by the welfare of the society, religiousness, and politics and to maintain wealthy status in the society. Individual donation or giving to charity is believed to be influenced by the personal characteristic of the individuals who are motivated towards giving to the society and the country and making it better place. Individual giving is done by the one who has enough money, sometime individual without enough money also do donations from the religious point of view.
As we know that donations either money, time or organs, it plays very important role in receiver's life even though the donations are given in the form of someone's belief, trust, motivations, abilities in the contemporary societies or in the developing countries. The concept of donation is not only giving money but also providing the time and services to those in need but also by conducting the awareness of thinking our societies, humanities and social concerns. In the recent years nonprofit organizations around the world have become the subject of change in the developing countries either by the terms of size, funding structures, and increasing recognition of the sectors work by the individuals in the various sector.
In today's context more of the nonprofit organization seeks formality, they ask their r profession, time period of donation, knowing the source of donations seeks to professionalized communications and explore a new income stream which requires an understanding of donors and their perception of giving money, funds or charities.

2024, American Behavioral Scientist

Does interacting with social science data in early adulthood promote generosity? To investigate this question from a life course development perspective, two distinct samples were drawn for a survey with an embedded experimental design. The first sample is of emerging adult college students ( n = 30, median age = 20 years). The second sample is of young adults who were selected to participate based on their prior participation in a nationally representative and longitudinal study ( n = 170, median age = 31 years). Toward the end of the survey, participants were randomly selected into a website interaction with either: (a) data on charitable giving, (b) data on social inequality, or (c) data about weather (a control condition). The key outcome of interest is a behavioral measure of generosity: whether participants elected to keep their study incentive or donate their incentive to a charitable organization. The donation decision occurred after the randomly selected website interaction...

2024, American Behavioral Scientist

This special issue addresses the science and imagination of living generously. Generosity is investigated from multiple disciplinary approaches, across the seven articles included in the issue. The first article engages an economic approach to address heterogeneity and generosity for adult Americans, analyzing charitable giving before and after the great recession of 2008. The second article engages a psychological approach to investigate later life-course generosity by studying mortality salience – concerns over the end of life – and age effects on charitable donations. The third article engages sociological and management approaches to study how social science data impacts generosity, by investigating an interaction with data analytics during the life-course stages of emerging and young adulthood. The fourth article engages a psychological approach to examine earlier life-course dynamics, by studying whether and under what conditions children exhibit generosity of affection toward...

2024

Background: The article provides a concise definition of donor crowdfunding as well as a historical overview. Through qualitative content analysis, it identifies open campaigns and subsequently implemented projects on the Slovak crowdfunding platform Donio. Conclusion: Other studies focusing on crowdfunding can be linked to similar articles. These studies should focus on a more detailed investigation of the mechanisms that contribute to the success of crowdfunding-supported projects. They should also focus on identifying strategies suitable for setting up projects in the non-profit sector.

2024

We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others' choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, environmental economists, and environmental social scientists. We find that people are generally disposed to grant freedom of choice, but only within certain limits. In addition, our results are in line with the widely held belief that economists are more selfish than other people. Yet, against the notion of consumer sovereignty, economists are not less likely to restrict others' choices and impose restrictions closer to their own preferences than the other student groups.

2024, Journal of Business Research

I dedicate my dissertation to my parents-Amina and Gulamali Merchant. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation is a culmination of an exciting journey and the start of a new one. This journey has been challenging, interesting and extremely productive. Like any journey there is a satisfaction that it has been completed successfully but there is also the nostalgia of the fun had along the way. I would at first like to thank God for giving me strength and wisdom, and for holding my hand through this journey. I could not have completed this without the help and sacrifice of the many people who have supported me and made me achieve my dream. At first I would like to thank my parents. Their encouragement, blessings and sacrifice have been a major contribution in my life. I dedicate my dissertation to them. My wife, Zahra and son Zaafir have stood by me through the last three years, supported and motivated me to believe in myself. Thank you for your love and affection and for being the "wind beneath my wings". I also acknowledge the emotional support and friendship of my sister Yasmin. She has always been a source of motivation. From the time I joined the doctoral program, Dr. John Ford was my coach, mentor, teacher and close friend. For his vision, his inspiration and his guidance I am grateful to him. I am thankful to him for giving me the opportunity to co-author with him in high quality research projects, for giving me the opportunity to review scholarly articles and for being the pillar of my dissertation by agreeing to being its Chair. I would also like to thank the other members of my dissertation committee-Dr. Edward Markowski and Dr. Leona Tarn for their valuable inputs and help at each stage of my research and for agreeing to co-author with me on research papers. I would like to acknowledge and thank the insightful involvement of Dr. Adrian Sargeant (Indiana vii University Purdue University) who took time off his schedule and actively participated as an external member of my dissertation committee. I am also grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to review scholarly journal articles and for agreeing to co-author with me on research projects. I would like to convey my gratitude to all my teachers, who have taught me how to research and think critically. I would like to thank Dr. Kiran Karande for helping me build a solid methodology foundation and co-authoring with me on research projects. Dr.

2024, Social Science Research Network

We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either one week, one month or no deadline by which to respond. Donations are lower for the one month deadline, than for the other two treatments, consistent with the model of inattention developed in Taubinsky (2014) and also with the idea that not specifying a deadline conveys urgency.

2024

During the Ottoman Empire, there were many educational foundations in Turkey. However, with the establishment of the Turkish Republic, the foundation system and educational system were reformed and an attempt was made to unify both systems. For this reason, all educational institutions were connected to the Ministry of Education. And the legal arrangements relating to old and new foundations, which were subject to the Civil Code and Foundations Law, were recently unified by the new Foundations Law in 2008. In this period, and in order to increase the number of foundations and make them more effective especially in education, economic and financial privileges and tax exemptions were granted to foundations. Most importantly foundations were permitted to establish higher education institutions. This paper examines the educational activities of foundations and the legal arrangements regarding foundations and their effects on the educational system in Turkey. According to the Turkish history, the first foundations developed during the Seljuk period (1038-1293) were institutionalized and experienced their heyday during the Ottoman period . According to official sources, the first foundation, whose settlement deed still survives, was established in 1048 to support (*) Lecturer Private Laow -Turkish National Police Academy -Istanbul -Turkey.

2024

The intergenerational persistence of consumption describes the extent to which children inherit the living standards of their parents. Evidence on this parameter is scarce due to limited data on the joint consumption of parents and children. This paper identifies parents who participated in the Danish Expenditure Survey, links them to their children through population-wide Danish registries, and estimates the intergenerational elasticity of consumption in Denmark. The results suggest that, consistent with intergenerational consumption smoothing, the persistence of consumption across generations is higher than the persistence of earnings and income.