The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #11 (December 2023)

• Giving farm animals a name and a face: Eliciting animal advocacy among omnivores using the identifiable victim effect, Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, Eliran Halali, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024
• The Role of Socially Rich Photos in Generating Favorable Donation Behavior on Charity Websites, Soffien Bataoui, Emmanuelle Boch, The Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2023
• The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship, Reid B. C. Pauly, Rose McDermott, International Security, 2023
• Every Little Helps: Exploring Meat and Animal Product Consumption in the Tesco 1.0 Dataset, Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye, Christopher Bryant, Katharina Hofmann, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2023
• Partner Choice and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas can Increase Resource Inequality, Mirre Stallen, Luuk L. Snijder, Jörg Gross, Leon P. Hilbert, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Nature Communications, 2023
• The Relative Importance of Target and Judge Characteristics in Shaping the Moral Circle, Bastian Jaeger, Matti Wilks, Cognitive Science, 2023
• Morality Beyond the WEIRD: How the Nomological Network of Morality Varies Across Cultures, Atari. M, Haidt. J, Graham. J, Koleva. S, Stevens, S. T, & Dehghani. M, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2023
• The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence, Ali Ladak, Steve Loughnan, and Matti Wilks, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2023

• How Important is the End of Humanity? Lay People Prioritize Extinction Prevention but Not Above All Other Societal Issues, Matthew Coleman, Lucius Caviola, Joshua Lewis, and Geoffrey Goodwin, 2023
• The Longtermism Beliefs Scale: Measuring Lay Beliefs for Protecting Humanity’s Longterm Future, Stylianos Syropoulos, Kyle Fiore Law, Gordon Kraft-Todd, and Liane Young, 2023
• Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries, Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly Doell, Joseph Bak-Coleman, and Jay J Van Bavel, 2023
• Do Disruptive Protests Help Vegan Advocacy?, Narges Kalantari, Faunalytics, 2023
• Misjudgment Exacerbates Collective Action Problems, Joshua Lewis, Shalena Srna, Erin Morrissey, Matti Wilks, Christoph Winter, and Lucius Caviola, 2023

• The Role of Behavioural Science in Effective Altruism, Emily Grundy
• Doing Good Effectively is Unusual, Richard Y Chappell
• Early Findings From the World’s Largest UBI Study, GiveDirectly
• StrongMinds (4 of 9) - Psychotherapy's impact may be shorter lived than previously estimated, Sogive

• Values, Principles, and Behavior Change (with Eric Zimmer), Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
• Cass Sunstein On How Social Change Happens, and Why It’s So Often Abrupt & Unpredictable, 80,000 Hours
• Toby Ord On the Precipice and Humanity’s Potential Futures, 80,000 Hours

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