PROSOCIAL SPENDING

I. Prosocial Spending (Elaboration)

a. How people spend money is at least as important how much people have.
i. University Campus Experiment
b. Peoples daily spending choices may be guided by flawed intuitions about the
relationship between money and happiness.
II. Is the warm glow of giving universal?
a. Emotional benefits of giving might be dampened or eliminated in countries where
people are struggling to meet their own basic needs
i. University Campus Experiment
b. Warm glow of giving may be a fundamental component of human nature if people
desire emotional benefits from prosocial spending even in poorer countries
i. Correlation between Charitable giving and Happiness in 136 countries)
ii. Goody bag experiment
c. Capacity to desire joy from giving might be a universal feature of human psychology
i. Toddler experiment
III. When does Prosocial spending promote happiness?
i. Relatedness
ii. Competence
iii. Autonomy
IV. Beyond happiness
a. Emotional consequences of prosocial spending produce a cascade of physical
consequences
i. $10 reward for students Experiment
ii. Donators handgrip experiment
b. Prosocial spending may still have independent possible effects on both emotional and
physical activity.
V. Conclusion