Mental Imagery, Impact, and Affect: A Mediation Model for Charitable Giving

Stephan Dickert; Janet Kleber; Daniel Västfjäll; Paul Slovic

PLOS ONE · 2016-02-09
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Evidence limits: Two experiments with mixed direct and indirect findings; first uses hypothetical donations, second real donations. Correlational mediators do not establish causal ordering or generalize automatically to institutional giving.
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