Charitable giving is important for modern society which refers to the voluntary donation to nonprofit organizations that benefits others beyond one’s own family. It is necessary to review the literatures of charitable giving as an independent theme, which may be helpful to the operation and development of relevant organizations. Researchers have extensively studied the antecedents of charitable giving from donors (demographic features, values, cognitive and emotional states), charities (organization characteristics and their interaction with donors) and social contexts (cultural features and social situations). However, further efforts are still needed on the development of integrated theory, exploration of its information processing and cross-cultural researches. Based on the review, we propose uncertainty to be an important factor which predicts that more uncertainty will lead to less charitable giving. Furthermore, different
%K 慈善捐款行为;利他;不确定性;双信息加工机制
Charitable Giving
%K Altruism
%K Uncertainty
%K Dual-Processing Mechanism
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