Giving to family versus giving to the community within and across generations

Giving Versus Giving In

Altruism is central to organizational and social life, but its motivations are not well understood. We propose a new theoretical distinction that sorts these motivations into two basic types: “giving” indicates prosocial behaviors in which one willingly engages, while “giving in” indicates prosocial behavior in which one reluctantly engages, often in response to social pressure or obligation. U...

Giving To Ingrates?*

* We thank David Bruner for his assistance in running these experiments and the University of Calgary Behavioural and Experimental Economics Laboratory for providing the facilities to conduct the experiments. Funding for this project was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) via a grant to McKee. 2 ABSTRACT Models for voluntary provision of public goods predic...

Giving control to patients.

Giving Meaning to Movement

A growing body of evidence indicates that plant transcription factors move between cells. A recent paper by Nakajima et al. (2001) shows that movement of the SHORTROOT protein provides a mechanism for signaling positional information between cell layers of the root.

Giving Feedback to Clients

Client-agent interactions are prevalent in our daily lives. In this research, we study one such interaction through an economic game that captures the essence of clients’ and agents’ dealings with one another: the fact that agents, whose pay is frequently determined by client happiness, have the incentive to maximize client happiness by giving distorted feedback. In this game, a client undertak...