BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Aug. 28 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:
Does generosity differ by age, and does culture shape how giving looks along the way? A new study finds the answer to both is yes: across two countries, compared with their younger counterparts, older adults were less influenced by social distance when giving to others, and gave more to charity.
Dr. Yi Lu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western Kentucky University, worked with a team of collaborators at Cornell University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong to publish this research, "Prosociality Across Adulthood: Social Discounting and Donations in the U.S. and China," in the journal Psychology and Aging. Dr. Lu earne...