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Unpredictable Needs Are Associated With Lower Expectations Of Repayment, Jessica D. Ayers
Unpredictable Needs Are Associated With Lower Expectations Of Repayment, Jessica D. Ayers
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Sometimes people help one another expecting to be repaid, while at other times people help without an expectation of repayment. What might underlie this difference in expectations of repayment? We investigate this question in a nationally representative sample of US adults (N = 915), and find that people are more likely to expect repayment when needs are perceived to be more predictable. We then replicate these findings in a new sample of US adults (N = 417), and show that people have higher expectations of repayment when needs are perceived to be more predictable because people assign greater …