Why do some men become stingy, and others - generous?What led, for example, Bill Gates give to charity $ 28 billion, while the other rich people, even much more modest donations not wait?
New research suggests a rather unexpected answer:
presence in a family of women (or girls, even very crumbs) may be sufficient to push the man to make broad gestures.
Researchers Michael Dahl, Christian desault and David Ross tried to find out what motivates wealthy men to make generous deeds.The first thing they decided to find out what men chiefs least skimp on salaries of its employees.To do this, they analyzed the changes in the salaries of employees 10 000 Danish companies for ten years.
Curiously, when business leaders become fathers, they started paying their employees less (on average, each employee was losing $ 100 per year).This can be attributed to the growing needs of the newfound father's family, but all was not so simple.
On closer inspection, it turned out that the huge role played by gender of the child.And happy fathers whose daughters were born, grew only more generous.
Daughters overbearing soften hearts and awaken in them the desire to care more about others.This means, including and increase in salaries of subordinates.Scientists attribute this to the style of communication with her daughters - combing hair, ribbons, braids, dolls, lace, and all the other manifestations of tenderness.Sons communication is, after all, a different character - the soldiers and the machine is set to a more serious way.
In another study, Professor Paul Van Lang and his colleagues at the Free University of Amsterdam carried out the game with more than 600 people, which is offered to allocate the available financial resources, to choose between two possible options:
(a) you will receive $ 25 and your partnerreceives $ 10.
(b) you will receive $ 20 and your partner receives $ 30.
first option egotistical - a man said that he wanted to get more than his partner.The last evidence of generosity - a man willing to donate a small amount ($ 5) to increase the amount of money received by a partner twice.
results of this study showed a clear link with the number of the generosity of brothers and sisters in the family members.We chose the second option, on average there were two by two.Those who behaved selfishly, it was an average of one.More children in the family - more habit to share.
But here, too, as it turned out, the floor is important."Generous" 40 percent more likely to grow up with sisters (the larger sisters, the more generous) than "selfish."And the number of brothers has no absolutely no value.
During another study by Professor Wang Lang found out that the more sisters was a man, the more time he devoted to their own children.
Some of the most well-known philanthropists themselves recognized the role of women in the event of their willingness to sacrifice.Twenty years ago, when Bill Gates was already close to becoming the richest man in the world, he refused to establish a charitable foundation, saying it plans to do charity work through the years 25. But three years later, he joined the list of the most generous philanthropists of America.Between these events she had a daughter.
In 2007, during a presentation in San Francisco psychologist Roy Bomester said: "The share of men accounted the most extreme acts.Men are more likely than women are capable of the worst manifestations of aggression and selfishness, but they are also capable of the most generous and noble deeds. "
These findings are somewhat in the other way, the economists James Andreoni support of the University of California and Liz Vesterlang the University of Pittsburgh.During their experiment, the women tended to divide the available resources equally, while the men behaved a very generous or extremely selfish.
It is possible that the presence of women declines men towards generosity.
Articles Source: mixstuff.ru
