Personal relationships increase donations

Friday, August 22, 2008 - 12:49 in Psychology & Sociology

People tend to be more sympathetic to people suffering from the same misfortune as a friend. But friendship with a victim does not make people generally more sympathetic, according to the authors of a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

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