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The Regularities of Giving

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Prosocial behavior—generosity, altruism, and other behaviors that promote the social welfare of society—are not unpredictable. Just like many other human behaviors, when examined in the aggregate, they exhibit all sorts of regularities. People cooperate in certain predictable ways, and there are certain scaling laws between prosocial behaviors and the sizes of cities. Well, charity also obeys certain quantitative rules.

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BPS Research Digest: Mention of the word "loving" doubles charitable donations

BPS Research Digest: Mention of the word "loving" doubles charitable donations | Science News | Scoop.it

"Love begets love." Proverb
French researchers say that adding the text "donating=loving" to a charitable collection box almost doubled the amount of money they raised.

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Ethical Supercomputing

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Charity Engine compute cycles come from volunteers who download the appropriate software on their PC that makes the computer available to the grid. But the company does not entirely rely upon the kindness of strangers. The remaining half of the money collected from clients is distributed as prizes to lucky PC donors, chosen randomly.

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