Alan E. Gross, Barbara S. Wallston, Irving M. Piliavin, Beneficiary Attractiveness and Cost as Determinants of Responses to Routine Requests for Help, Sociometry, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), pp. 131-140
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