Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert...
Using General Social Survey data from 1972 to 2008, we found that Americans were on average happier in the years...
Purpose:This study was designed to examine the relationship between active transportation (defined as the percentage of trips taken by walking,...
In two laboratory and one pilot field study, we demonstrate that cause marketing, whereby firms link products with a cause...
We tested the hypothesis that gifts act as markers of interpersonal similarity for both acquaintances and close relationship partners. Participants...
Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on...
Although evidence suggests that negative task and self-evaluations are associated with emotional exhaustion, little research has examined factors that buffer...
People directly experience only themselves here and now but often consider, evaluate, and plan situations that are removed in time...
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from...
Evolutionary models of cooperation require proximate mechanisms that sustain prosociality despite inherent costs to individuals. The ‘‘warm glow’’ that often...