The main goal of this study was to examine the interrelationship of different personal and situational variables, charity intention and reputation. Study was conducted on 66 second-year students of the Faculty of Medicine Osijek, 30 men and 36 women, with an average age of 20 years. It was consisted of three parts, which were presented as independent of each other, during October 2013. First part involved a measurement of different predictor variables by following instruments: MACH-IV Test (Christie i Geis, 1970) to measure machiavellianism as a personality trait, Emotional Empathic Tendency Scale (Mehrabian i Epstein, 1972) which measures empathic tendency, while religiosity was measured by a single item. Social status was tested by a sociometric questionnaire, developed for the particular purpose of this study. In second part of this study one artificial charity project was presented, and the intention to participate in it was examined in two different ways, according to two experimental conditions with independent participants: orally (public condition) or in writing (private condition). Third part of the study included second measurement of a social status by the same sociometric questionnaire. By such an integration of evolutionary and social percpective of altruism, some unexpected results were obtained. Particularly, it was found that students are more likely to participate in some charity activity if they make their offer in writing than if they make that orally, in the presence of their colleagues. Also, against the expectations, there was not any relationship between the charity offer and change in social status in public condition. Finally, publicity for charity offers was found as the only significant predictor of charity intention, in relation to other personal factors, but with different direction than was hypothesised.