How Good is Bad News?

This thesis looks at the impact of bad news on the giving in dictator games. The research shows that in an online survey, with the Red Cross as recipient and a ten euro stack, the proposers who were faced with bad news tend to give more money to the responder, compared to the proposers which were faced with no news or with good news. This result only hold on a 10 percent significance level for the triple dictator games, not for the normal dictator game. Analysis is done using a Tobit model.