Donations to Outgroup Charities, but Not Ingroup Charities, Predict Helping Intentions Toward Street-Beggars in Sweden

Erlandsson, Arvid; Nilsson, Artur; Tinghög, Gustav; Andersson, David; Västfjäll, Daniel

doi:10.1177/0899764018819872

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“…This classification has been validated in past studies in terms of the finding that people perceive the organizations as focusing on helping Swedish victims (in–group organizations) or non–Swedish victims (out–group organizations) and the finding that self–reported donations to the two categories of organizations are factorially distinct (Erlandsson, Nilsson, Tinghög, Andersson, & Västfjäll, 2019; Nilsson et al, 2016). Participants in these validation studies and participants in the current research were recruited from the same nationally representative panel (which contains 20 000 individuals in total).…”

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Moral Foundations Theory and the Psychology of Charitable Giving

2020

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Moral foundations theory proposes that intuitions about what is morally right or wrong rest upon a set of universal foundations. Although this theory has generated a recent surge of research, few studies have investigated the real‐world moral consequences of the postulated moral intuitions. We show that they are predictably associated with an important type of moral behaviour. Stronger individualizing intuitions (fairness and harm prevention) and weaker binding intuitions (loyalty, authority, and sanctity) were associated with the willingness to comply with a request to volunteer for charity and with the amount of self‐reported donations to charity organizations. Among participants who complied with the request, individualizing intuitions predicted the allocation of donations to causes that benefit out‐groups, whereas binding intuitions predicted the allocation of donations to causes that benefit the in‐group. The associations between moral foundations and self‐report measures of allocations in a hypothetical dilemma and concern with helping in‐group and out‐group victims were similar. Moral foundations predicted charitable giving over and above effects of political ideology, religiosity, and demographics, although variables within these categories also exhibited unique effects on charitable giving and accounted for a portion of the relationship between moral foundations and charitable giving. © 2020 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology

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“…This classification has been validated in past studies in terms of the finding that people perceive the organizations as focusing on helping Swedish victims (in-group organizations) or non-Swedish victims (out-group organizations) and the finding that self-reported donations to the two categories of organizations are factorially distinct (Erlandsson, Nilsson, Tinghög, Andersson, & Västfjäll, 2019;Nilsson et al, 2016). Participants in these validation studies and participants in the current research were recruited from the same nationally representative panel (which contains 20 000 individuals in total).…”

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Moral foundations theory and the psychology of charitable giving

Nilsson¹,

Erlandsson²,

Västfjäll³

2018

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Moral foundations theory proposes that intuitions about what is morally right or wrong rest upon a set of universal foundations. Although this theory has generated a recent surge of research, few studies have investigated the real-world moral consequences of the postulated moral intuitions. We show that they are predictably associated with an important type of moral behaviour. Stronger individualizing intuitions (fairness and harm prevention) and weaker binding intuitions (loyalty, authority, and sanctity) were associated with the willingness to comply with a request to volunteer for charity and with the amount of self-reported donations to charity organizations. Among participants who complied with the request, individualizing intuitions predicted the allocation of donations to causes that benefit out-groups, whereas binding intuitions predicted the allocation of donations to causes that benefit the in-group. The associations between moral foundations and self-report measures of allocations in a hypothetical dilemma and concern with helping in-group and out-group victims were similar. Moral foundations predicted charitable giving over and above effects of political ideology, religiosity, and demographics, although variables within these categories also exhibited unique effects on charitable giving and accounted for a portion of the relationship between moral foundations and charitable giving.

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“…Swedish adults were recruited from a nationally representative panel by an independent research firm in the fall of 2015 (N = 1048; 49.9% women and 50.1% men; Mage = 52.2 years, SD = 14.9) to fill out an online questionnaire battery, which included measures of prosociality in addition to the scales we used (results concerning prosociality have been reported elsewhere, see Erlandsson, Nilsson, Tinghög, Andersson, & Västfjäll, 2019;Nilsson, Erlandsson, & Västfjäll, 2016). Quota sampling was used to make the sample nationally representative in terms of sex, age, and geographic region.…”

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Beyond “liberals” and “conservatives”: Complexity in ideology, moral intuitions, and worldview among Swedish voters

Nilsson¹,

Montgomery²,

Dimdiņš³

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This research investigated the congruence between the ideologies of political parties and the ideological preferences (N = 1515), moral intuitions (N = 1048), and political values and worldviews (N = 1345) of diverse samples of Swedish adults who voted or intended to vote for the parties. Logistic regression analyses yielded support for a series of hypotheses about variations in ideology beyond the left-right division. With respect to social ideology, resistance to change and binding moral intuitions predicted stronger preference for a social democratic (vs. progressive) party on the left and weaker preference for a social liberal (vs. social conservative or liberal-conservative) party on the right. With respect to political values and broader worldviews, normativism and low acceptance of immigrants predicted the strongest preference for a nationalist party, while environmentalism predicted the strongest preference for a green party. The effects were generally strong and robust when we controlled for left-right self-placements, economic ideology, and demographic characteristics. These results show that personality variation in the ideological domain is not reducible to the simplistic contrast between 'liberals' and 'conservatives', which ignores differences between progressive and non-progressive leftists, economic and green progressives, social liberal and conservative rightists, and nationalist and non-nationalist conservatives.

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Donations to Outgroup Charities, but Not Ingroup Charities, Predict Helping Intentions Toward Street-Beggars in Sweden

Cited by 24 publications

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Moral Foundations Theory and the Psychology of Charitable Giving

Moral Foundations Theory and the Psychology of Charitable Giving

Moral foundations theory and the psychology of charitable giving

Beyond “liberals” and “conservatives”: Complexity in ideology, moral intuitions, and worldview among Swedish voters

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