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Giving behavior of millionaires
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved July 10, 2015 (received for review April 23, 2015)

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- Published in issue August 25, 2015.
- Published first August 10, 2015.
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- aDepartment of Finance and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, 6211 LM, Maastricht, The Netherlands;
- bRady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093;
- cCenter for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved July 10, 2015 (received for review April 23, 2015)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: pm.smeets{at}maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Author contributions: P.S. and U.G. designed research; P.S. performed research; P.S. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.S. analyzed data; P.S., R.B., and U.G. wrote the paper; and R.B. participated in data collection.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1507949112/-/DCSupplemental.
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- Result 1: In the Dictator Game, Millionaires Give a Higher Amount to Low-Income Participants than to Other Millionaires
- Result 2: In the Dictator Game, Millionaires Who Are Matched to a Low-Income Participant Give Away More than in any Other Example in the Literature
- Result 3: Millionaires Are More Generous Toward Low-Income Participants in the Dictator Game than in the Ultimatum Game
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