Appendix A of The Precipice—Ord, 2020 (see also the footnotes, and the sources referenced)
The Long-Term Future: An Attitude Survey—Vallinder, 2019
Older people may place less moral value on the far future—Sanjay, 2019
Making people happy or making happy people? Questionnaire-experimental studies of population ethics and policy—Spears, 2017
The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction—Schubert, Caviola & Faber, 2019
Psychology of Existential Risk and Long-Termism—Schubert, 2018 (space for discussion here)
Descriptive Ethics – Methodology and Literature Review—Althaus, ~2018 (this is something like an unpolished appendix to Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization, and it would make sense to read the latter post first)
A Small Mechanical Turk Survey on Ethics and Animal Welfare—Brian Tomasik, 2015
Work on “future self continuity” might be relevant (I haven’t looked into it)
Some evidence about the views of EA-aligned/EA-adjacent groups
Survey results: Suffering vs oblivion—Slate Star Codex, 2016
Survey about preferences for the future of AI—FLI, ~2017
Some evidence about the views of EAs
Facebook poll relevant to preferences for one’s own suffering vs bliss—Jay Quigley, 2016
See also my collection of sources relevant to moral circles, moral boundaries, or their expansion, and my collection of sources relevant to the idea of “moral weight”.
Aron Vallinder has put together a comprehensive bibliography on the psychology of the future.
Nice, thanks.
I’ve now also added that to the Bibliography section of the Psychology of effective altruism entry.
Collection of evidence about views on longtermism, time discounting, population ethics, significance of suffering vs happiness, etc. among non-EAs
Appendix A of The Precipice—Ord, 2020 (see also the footnotes, and the sources referenced)
The Long-Term Future: An Attitude Survey—Vallinder, 2019
Older people may place less moral value on the far future—Sanjay, 2019
Making people happy or making happy people? Questionnaire-experimental studies of population ethics and policy—Spears, 2017
The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction—Schubert, Caviola & Faber, 2019
Psychology of Existential Risk and Long-Termism—Schubert, 2018 (space for discussion here)
Descriptive Ethics – Methodology and Literature Review—Althaus, ~2018 (this is something like an unpolished appendix to Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization, and it would make sense to read the latter post first)
A Small Mechanical Turk Survey on Ethics and Animal Welfare—Brian Tomasik, 2015
Work on “future self continuity” might be relevant (I haven’t looked into it)
Some evidence about the views of EA-aligned/EA-adjacent groups
Survey results: Suffering vs oblivion—Slate Star Codex, 2016
Survey about preferences for the future of AI—FLI, ~2017
Some evidence about the views of EAs
Facebook poll relevant to preferences for one’s own suffering vs bliss—Jay Quigley, 2016
See also my collection of sources relevant to moral circles, moral boundaries, or their expansion, and my collection of sources relevant to the idea of “moral weight”.
Aron Vallinder has put together a comprehensive bibliography on the psychology of the future.
Nice, thanks.
I’ve now also added that to the Bibliography section of the Psychology of effective altruism entry.