Those with less likely to give more

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John Reece of Lafayette makes less than $20,000 a year, but he still finds time to volunteer.

"It's easier for me to give time than it is money, but time is money one way or the other," said Reece, who volunteers at the food pantry run by St. John's Episcopal Church and Lafayette Urban Ministry. "I like helping out somewhere so that's what I do. It needs done. I have a big heart. I was brought up that way."

Surprisingly, people who have less tend to be more generous, charitable, trusting and helpful compared to their upper-class counterparts, according to a study that will be published in the August edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"What we find counterintuitively ... is that the needy or the relatively less wealthy are actually more generous," said Paul Piff, lead author of the study. "They are more giving toward other people (and) they care more about the needs of others in their social surroundings."

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