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Social preferences describe the human tendency to not only care about one's own material payoff, but also the reference group's payoff or/and the intention that leads to the payoff. [1] Social preferences are studied extensively in behavioral and experimental economics and social psychology. Types of social preferences include altruism ...
Community. Prosocial behavior, or intent to benefit others, [1] is a social behavior that "benefit [s] other people or society as a whole", [2] "such as helping, sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering". [3] Obeying the rules and conforming to socially accepted behaviors (such as stopping at a "Stop" sign or paying for groceries) are ...
An estimated $416 million was donated to effective charities identified by the movement in 2019, [17] representing a 37% annual growth rate since 2015. [18] Two of the largest donors in the effective altruism community, Dustin Moskovitz, who had become wealthy through co-founding Facebook, and his wife Cari Tuna, hope to donate most of their net worth of over $11 billion for effective altruist ...
Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals largely independent of that person's opinion of or reaction to oneself. While objects of altruistic concern vary, it is an important moral value in many cultures and religions. It may be considered a synonym of selflessness (if we ...
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science. As a journal-level metric, it is frequently used as a proxy for ...
Rabin fairness is a fairness model invented by Matthew Rabin. It goes beyond the standard assumptions in modeling behavior, rationality and self-interest, to incorporate fairness. [1] Rabin's fairness model incorporates findings from the economics and psychology fields to provide an alternative utility model.
Empathy-altruism. Empathy-altruism is a form of altruism based on moral emotions or feelings for others. Social exchange theory represents a seemingly altruistic behavior which benefits the altruist and outweighs the cost the altruist bears. Thus such behavior is self-interested.
Psychological barriers to effective altruism. Peter Singer is one of the prominent philosophers of effective altruism. In the philosophy of effective altruism, an altruistic act such as charitable giving is considered more effective, or cost-effective, if it uses a set of resources to do more good per unit of resource than other options, with ...