Generosity

[1] Generosity is regarded as a virtue by various world religions and philosophies and is often celebrated in cultural and religious ceremonies.

This can involve offering time, assets, or talents to assist those in need, such as during natural disasters, where people voluntarily contribute resources, goods, and money.

[clarification needed][3] People can experience joy and satisfaction when they positively affect someone's life through acts of generosity.

The same root gives the words genesis, gentry, gender, genital, gentile, genealogy, and genius, among others.

Over the last five centuries in the English-speaking world, generosity has developed from being primarily the description of an ascribed status pertaining to the elite nobility to being an achieved mark of admirable personal quality and action capable of being exercised in theory by any person who had learned virtue and noble character.

[4] Most recorded English uses of the word generous up to and during the sixteenth century reflect an aristocratic sense of being of noble lineage or high birth.

In Islam, the Quran states that whatever one gives away generously, with the intention of pleasing God, He will replace.

[non sequitur] Paul J. Zak and colleagues administered the peptide oxytocin or placebo was given to about 100 men who then they made several decisions regarding money.

Generosity for the purposes of this project is defined as the virtue of giving good things to others empathically and abundantly.

The study examined two methods of spreading generosity behavior: generalized reciprocity and the influence of observing others' generous actions.

In one set of laboratory experiments, participant roles included punishers, non-punishers, and generous and selfish people.