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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"warm glow"”.
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The warm glow of motherhood; exploring the moods of new mothers through imagery
Motherhood marks a new beginning, which like all beginnings, can commence on unsteady emotional ground. The purpose of this research was to explore first-time mothers' experiences through the lens of a creative existential framework to provide a deeper understanding of emotion and mood in this …
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Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
… experiment to explore whether appealing to ‘warm glow’ motives can encourage voluntary pro-environmental behaviour, relative to other common climate change communication strategies. Chapter 4 presents the results of a large-scale field experiment conducted at five university cafeterias, …
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Using Laboratory Experiments to Better Understand Voluntary Contributions
This dissertation covers three papers concerning voluntary contributions. There are competing theories as to why individuals contribute to projects which help others (e.g., charities); many of the theoretical models have at their core, that an individual is indifferent between giving time or money. …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Philanthropy
… to volunteer, people with high altruism or high warm-glow prefer to volunteer sooner rather than later, while higher future expected participation costs and lower expected reneging costs result in lower rates of rejection immediately. Moreover, pledges increase reneging behaviors on the future …