We’ve run a lab experiment where we tested the effects of giving people money to donate to their choice of two charities featured in a TED talk all subjects watched. It’s described here, my collaborator is working on writing it up for publication. Takeaway is that the “Giving Game Treatment” saw huge (2-4x) increases in amount of their own money people donated, % of people who signed up for at least one charity newsletter, and total # of subscriptions relative to the control group.
Next thing we want to test is whether we can create lasting changes in attitudes and behaviors. Not sure yet whether that will be a formal (intended for academic publication) study or not.
Btw, while not directly related to the efficacy of Giving Games, there are also a couple of academic studies likely to be published that have used the Giving Game model to test hypotheses by varying the information provided to different treatments. Some U Chicago researchers did this to extend their research on the “other minds problem” and I’m working with someone at U of Hamburg to expand the literature on how “social information” affects giving.
We’ve run a lab experiment where we tested the effects of giving people money to donate to their choice of two charities featured in a TED talk all subjects watched. It’s described here, my collaborator is working on writing it up for publication. Takeaway is that the “Giving Game Treatment” saw huge (2-4x) increases in amount of their own money people donated, % of people who signed up for at least one charity newsletter, and total # of subscriptions relative to the control group.
Next thing we want to test is whether we can create lasting changes in attitudes and behaviors. Not sure yet whether that will be a formal (intended for academic publication) study or not.
Btw, while not directly related to the efficacy of Giving Games, there are also a couple of academic studies likely to be published that have used the Giving Game model to test hypotheses by varying the information provided to different treatments. Some U Chicago researchers did this to extend their research on the “other minds problem” and I’m working with someone at U of Hamburg to expand the literature on how “social information” affects giving.