>The egoistic motivation for donating is highly scope insensitive – giving away $500 feels roughly as good as giving away $50,000. I haven’t found any academic evidence on this, but it’s been robustly true in my experience.
There’s academic evidence and it disagrees; the amount of donations matters. (It’s nonlinear, but so is the effect of spending on anything.) I suppose you could probably increase it by giving smaller amounts more frequently—having a tiny notification on your computer that goes “Congrats on donating $10!” or whatever.
>The egoistic motivation for donating is highly scope insensitive – giving away $500 feels roughly as good as giving away $50,000. I haven’t found any academic evidence on this, but it’s been robustly true in my experience.
There’s academic evidence and it disagrees; the amount of donations matters. (It’s nonlinear, but so is the effect of spending on anything.) I suppose you could probably increase it by giving smaller amounts more frequently—having a tiny notification on your computer that goes “Congrats on donating $10!” or whatever.