| Creators: |
Huber, Michaela and Van Boven, Leaf and McGraw, A. Peter and Johnson-Graham, Laura |
| Title: |
Whom to help? Immediacy bias in judgments and decisions about humanitarian aid |
| Item Type: |
Article or issue of a publication series |
| Journal or Series Title: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes |
| Page Range: |
pp. 283-293 |
| Date: |
July 2011 |
| Divisions: |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Abstract (ENG): |
People exhibit an immediacy bias when making judgments and decisions about humanitarian aid, perceiving as more deserving and donating disproportionately to humanitarian crises that happen to arouse immediate emotion. The immediacy bias produced different serial position effects, contingent on decision timing (Experiment 1). When making allocation decisions directly after viewing to four emotionally evocative films about four different humanitarian crises, participants donated disproportionately more to the final, immediate crisis, in contrast, when making donation decisions sequentially, after viewing each of the four crises, participants donated disproportionately to the immediate crisis. The immediacy bias was associated with “scope neglect,” causing people to take action against relatively less deadly crises (Experiments 2 and 3). The immediacy bias emerged even when participants were warned about emotional manipulation (Experiment 3). The immediacy bias diminished over time, as immediate emotions presumably subsided (Experiment 2). Implications for charitable giving, serial position effects, and the influence of emotion on choice are discussed. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Citation: |
Huber, Michaela and Van Boven, Leaf and McGraw, A. Peter and Johnson-Graham, Laura
(2011)
Whom to help? Immediacy bias in judgments and decisions about humanitarian aid.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115 (2).
pp. 283-293.
ISSN 0749-5978
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