Some questions this post made me realise I didn’t have answers to, which seem useful to have answers to and there may be research in this somewhere already:
What attempts have been made to motivate people to be more altruistic, and did any of them work?
Is there much effort being made to do this currently besides specific charity advocacy? What would this look like
Has anyone studied the effect of more charity advertising/advocacy and whether it diverts money which would have been donated anyway or causes extra money to be donated?
It seems to me that knowing the answers to these questions might help me judge whether this area is something I think EAs should be pursuing. I may look into these myself in the next few days but I’m putting them here in case someone already knows relevant info about the topic.
Some questions this post made me realise I didn’t have answers to, which seem useful to have answers to and there may be research in this somewhere already:
What attempts have been made to motivate people to be more altruistic, and did any of them work?
Is there much effort being made to do this currently besides specific charity advocacy? What would this look like
Has anyone studied the effect of more charity advertising/advocacy and whether it diverts money which would have been donated anyway or causes extra money to be donated?
It seems to me that knowing the answers to these questions might help me judge whether this area is something I think EAs should be pursuing. I may look into these myself in the next few days but I’m putting them here in case someone already knows relevant info about the topic.
Yes! All this, and it was better summarized by you, thank you. I am looking for these answers.