Exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic environment and generosity.

Autor: Brañas-Garza P; Loyola Behavioral Lab & Department of Economics, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain., Jorrat D; Loyola Behavioral Lab & Department of Economics, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain., Alfonso A; Loyola Behavioral Lab & Department of Economics, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain., Espín AM; Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Granada, Spain., Muñoz TG; Department of Quantitative Economics, Universidad de Granada, Spain., Kovářík J; Universidad del País Vasco UPV-EHU, Bilbao, Spain.; CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic.; Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Royal Society open science [R Soc Open Sci] 2022 Jan 12; Vol. 9 (1), pp. 210919. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 12 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210919
Abstrakt: We report data from an online experiment which allows us to study how generosity changed over a 6-day period during the initial explosive growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in Andalusia, Spain, while the country was under a strict lockdown. Participants ( n = 969) could donate a fraction of a €100 prize to an unknown charity. Our data are particularly rich in the age distribution and we complement them with daily public information about COVID-19-related deaths, infections and hospital admissions. We find correlational evidence that donations decreased in the period under study, particularly among older individuals. Our analysis of the mechanisms behind the detected decrease in generosity suggests that expectations about others' behaviour, perceived mortality risk and (alarming) information play a key-but independent-role for behavioural adaptation. These results indicate that social behaviour is quickly adjusted in response to the pandemic environment, possibly reflecting some form of selective prosociality.
(© 2022 The Authors.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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