The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #9 (June 2023)

June 2023 (#9) 

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• Thank you for your submissions of interest for our project manager role. We are excited to announce that Timothy Caballero will be our next project lead. Welcome on board, Tim! 🎉

• Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge, Matti Wilks, Jessica McCurdy, Paul Bloom, Journal of Personality (2023)​​
• Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale, Giovanni Rossi et al., Scientific Reports (2023)
• Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs, Christoph Huber et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
• Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
  John Danaher & Henrik Skaug Sætra, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: 1-22 (2023)
• Philosophy instruction changes views on moral controversies by decreasing reliance on intuition, Kaan Oktar et al., Cognition (2023)​
• Does scarcity increase or decrease donation behaviors? An investigation considering resource-specific scarcity and individual person-thing orientation, Malika Malika et al., Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2023)​
• Moral barrier to compassion: How perceived badness of sufferers dampens observers' compassionate responses, Hongbo Yu et al., Cognition (2023)​​
• Comparative moral principles: justifications, values, and foundations, Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2023)​

• Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion, Jonas Schuett et al. (2023)
• Children Value Animals More than Adults do—a Conceptual Replication and Extension, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura et al. (2023)
• Learning from Consequences Shapes Reliance on Moral Rules vs. Cost-Benefit Reasoning, Maximilian Maier et al. (2023)
• Unequal Valuations of Lives and What to Do About It: The Role of Identifiability, Numbers, and Age in Charitable Giving [Thesis], Hajdi Moche (2022)
• Public Perceptions of AI Safety: An Infodemiology Study with Sentiment Analysis of Tweets, Federico Stefano Citterio, Rafael José Vieira (2023)
• Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good, Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang, Max Bazerman, The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022)

Updated ‘Psychology of EA’ course: reading, videos, and syllabus, Geoffrey Miller

Most Efficient Message Framing to Promote Charitable Giving [Literature Review Report], Zoé Roy-Stang
 AI X-risk in the News: How Effective are Recent Media Items and How is Awareness Changing?, Otto/Existential Risk Observatory

• Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us, 80,000 Hours
• Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t, 80,000 Hours
• Identifying Impactful Research Topics [recording], Izzy Gainsburg, Falk Lieder, Cecilia Tilli, Hayden Wilkinson.

Ongoing funding opportunities

• Open Philanthropy is funding the development of EA-adjacent university courses and early-career individuals
• A list of EA funding opportunities by Effective Thesis
• See EA Funds for other opportunities

New opportunities:

• Mercy For Animals is hiring for two Campaigns Interns [1,2]
• Lab Manager at the Rational Altruism Lab at UCLA
   

Ongoing opportunities:

• For EA: the 80,000 Hours Job board, the Effective Altruism Job Postings Facebook group and the EA Opportunities Board
• For behavioural science: Habit Weekly's jobs board
• For coaching, research, and supervision: the Effective Thesis website and newsletter
• For animal welfare: Animal Advocacy Careers and the Effective Animal Activism talent database

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• On EA conferences: See the EA Global website 
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