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  • Behavioral Economics
  • Consumer Psychology
  • Charitable Giving Research

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  • Choice overload is a psychological phenomenon where an abundance of options can lead to decision paralysis or avoidance.
  • Previous research has primarily explored choice overload in commercial contexts, with less focus on prosocial behaviors like charitable donations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of varying assortment sizes of charitable organizations on donation likelihood.
  • To determine if choice overload influences charitable behavior, considering individual preference certainty.

Main Methods:

  • A pre-registered online experiment involving 501 participants.
  • Participants were randomly assigned to groups with varying numbers of charitable organizations (2 to 80 options) to choose from for a monetary donation.
  • Donation likelihood was recorded and analyzed across different assortment sizes and levels of participant preference certainty.

Main Results:

  • No significant differences in donation likelihood were observed across the 16 different assortment sizes of charitable organizations.
  • The effect of assortment size on donation behavior was consistent for individuals with both high and uncertain preference certainty.
  • Increasing the number of available charities did not deter or encourage monetary donations.

Conclusions:

  • The phenomenon of choice overload does not appear to significantly impact charitable giving behavior.
  • Decision-making in the context of prosocial behavior, such as donating to charity, may be less susceptible to the negative effects of numerous options compared to commercial choices.
  • Future research could explore other factors influencing charitable donation decisions beyond the number of available options.