The evaluability bias in charitable giving: Saving administration costs or saving lives?

We describe the ``evaluability bias'': the tendency to weight the importance of an attribute in proportion to its ease of evaluation. We propose that the evaluability bias influences decision making in the context of charitable giving: people tend to have a strong preference for charities...

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Hauptverfasser: Lucius Caviola, Nadira Faulmüller, Jim. A. C. Everett, Julian Savulescu, Guy Kahane
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge University Press 2014-07-01
Schriftenreihe:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Zugang:http://journal.sjdm.org/14/14402a/jdm14402a.pdf