Better understanding social movements Movement building & Conceptual dissemination
People involved with social movements are important collaborators for the EA movement. However, there is relatively little high quality survey work to understand how these groups differ and overlap. We would therefore like to fund research to regularly survey members of social movements to better understand them. For instance, this could involve understanding i) aggregations of behaviours and attitudes (e.g., what different identities, demographics/geographies/groups do/think about key issues), ii) awareness of internal and unobservable behavioural drivers and barriers (e.g., whether people in other movements fail to act as we desire because they are unaware, unable, or unmotivated, and why they justify this), iii) forecasts for future behaviour (e.g., whether people in other movements expect to think or act more or less in line with our desires in the future), iv) audience targeting (e.g., which movement we should target particular outreach to for best effect) and v) intervention tailoring (e.g., what to say to whom to get the best outcomes). Ideally, we could compare the results from these surveys against a similar EA sample (maybe the EA survey) and track divergence and convergence over time.
Better understanding social movements
Movement building & Conceptual dissemination
People involved with social movements are important collaborators for the EA movement. However, there is relatively little high quality survey work to understand how these groups differ and overlap. We would therefore like to fund research to regularly survey members of social movements to better understand them. For instance, this could involve understanding i) aggregations of behaviours and attitudes (e.g., what different identities, demographics/geographies/groups do/think about key issues), ii) awareness of internal and unobservable behavioural drivers and barriers (e.g., whether people in other movements fail to act as we desire because they are unaware, unable, or unmotivated, and why they justify this), iii) forecasts for future behaviour (e.g., whether people in other movements expect to think or act more or less in line with our desires in the future), iv) audience targeting (e.g., which movement we should target particular outreach to for best effect) and v) intervention tailoring (e.g., what to say to whom to get the best outcomes). Ideally, we could compare the results from these surveys against a similar EA sample (maybe the EA survey) and track divergence and convergence over time.