Determinants of willingness to help: Evidence from a survey experiment

Gábor Hajdu, Júlia Koltai, Luca Kristóf, Bori Simonovits

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

We analysed determinants of willingness to help using a factorial survey approach (n = 405 individuals, n = 5937 vignettes). We tested the effect of situational characteristics and how characteristics of the bystander and the person in need influence willingness to help in hypothetical situations within the framework of a cost-reward model. We found that the situation itself has the strongest effect: willingness to help was strongest when the net gain of helping was positive, whereas it was weaker in situations when the cost of helping and cost of not receiving help were equal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23-50
Number of pages28
JournalIntersections East European Journal of Society and Politics
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cost-reward model
  • Experiments
  • Factorial survey approach
  • Willingness to help

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