People who get COVID-19 or have friends and loved ones who do are more apt to give to charity

Researchers gave U.S. participants in an online experiment $5 and let them keep it all or give at least some of this money away to a charity supporting COVID-19 relief. They found that people who were directly affected by the disease were more likely to donate than those who were not. When they replicated this experiment with Italians, giving them 4 euros, more participants gave to charity but the pattern was the same.