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Piff's study, a dense but fascinating portion, is available online.
Barbara Heisler: Whose Gifts Are Major, Really? Barbara Heisler 2011
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Piff's experiments to test psychological factors which motivate donating habits across classes.
Barbara Heisler: Whose Gifts Are Major, Really? Barbara Heisler 2011
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Piff performed "a series of experiments that tested "lower class" and "upper class" subjects with earnings ranging from around $15,000 to more than $150,000 a year to see what kind of psychological factors motivated the well-known differences in their giving behaviors."
Barbara Heisler: Whose Gifts Are Major, Really? Barbara Heisler 2011
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For Piff, this has nothing to do with the inborn nobility of the poor, and everything to do with the fact that they are through their daily lives more connected and more dependent on others – and so are more likely to offer help in turn.
Don't expect the rich to fund Cameron's compassion strategy 2010
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Piff went into these tests believing that "those swimming in money were more likely to give it away".
Don't expect the rich to fund Cameron's compassion strategy 2010
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The way Piff tells it, the lower-class respondents always helped out no matter what clip they had been shown.
Don't expect the rich to fund Cameron's compassion strategy 2010
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“We need to write a letter from Oliver Piff to Loretta.”
Fiona Finkelstein Meets Her Match!! Shawn K. Stout 2010
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Piff about gender, I was walking near McGill during the winter and hit a partially submerge in snow remnant of a parking sign with my foot.
In Memoriam. LuLu 2008
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Piff, and Mrs. Sniff, was unanimous opposed to her going; for, as they says to Our Missis one and all, it is well beknown to the hends of the herth as no other nation except Britain has a idea of anythink, but above all of business.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Miss Whiff, Miss Piff, and me, we drored a heavy breath, equal to saying, “We thought as much!”
Mugby Junction 2007
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