(The following is a lightly edited version of an email I sent to Alex earlier this weekend)
I just fixed that typo, TY [I actually fixed it in draft on Saturday and forgot to implement]
1. Comparing online to IRL studies—I will think about how to integrate, e.g. a study that finds similar results wr.t. the effects of intergroup contact on prejudice, but I’m not sure how much this generalizes across the behavioral sciences.
2. You’re right about motivations; for the EA forum and a preprint I think we can take for granted that people agree that we should collectively eat fewer animal products, and truth be told I’m not sure what kind of journal we’re going to aim for yet, so we left that kind of underspecified.
3. There are some studies that compare multiple strategies within one sample! See Feltz et al. (2022), Norris (2014) and Piester et al. (2022), though admittedly these are generally trying to test multiple implementations of one theoretical perspective, as opposed to your idea which puts the theoretical approaches head to head. I also think that’s promising. I am soon to put a research agenda on this subject together and I will think about how to incorporate that.
Thanks for engaging as always!
P.S. I went to a lovely vegan donut shop in Beacon this weekend and the person working there mentioned that they don’t always emphasize the vegan labels for certain customers because of the mixed connotations. Then again, a lot of the vegan places near me have vegan in their name—seasoned vegan, slutty vegan, and next stop vegan come to mind. This is probably a regional/NYC thing but still something I’ve been more on the look out for since reading your paper.
Thank you for engaging Alex!
(The following is a lightly edited version of an email I sent to Alex earlier this weekend)
I just fixed that typo, TY [I actually fixed it in draft on Saturday and forgot to implement]
1. Comparing online to IRL studies—I will think about how to integrate, e.g. a study that finds similar results wr.t. the effects of intergroup contact on prejudice, but I’m not sure how much this generalizes across the behavioral sciences.
2. You’re right about motivations; for the EA forum and a preprint I think we can take for granted that people agree that we should collectively eat fewer animal products, and truth be told I’m not sure what kind of journal we’re going to aim for yet, so we left that kind of underspecified.
3. There are some studies that compare multiple strategies within one sample! See Feltz et al. (2022), Norris (2014) and Piester et al. (2022), though admittedly these are generally trying to test multiple implementations of one theoretical perspective, as opposed to your idea which puts the theoretical approaches head to head. I also think that’s promising. I am soon to put a research agenda on this subject together and I will think about how to incorporate that.
Thanks for engaging as always!
P.S. I went to a lovely vegan donut shop in Beacon this weekend and the person working there mentioned that they don’t always emphasize the vegan labels for certain customers because of the mixed connotations. Then again, a lot of the vegan places near me have vegan in their name—seasoned vegan, slutty vegan, and next stop vegan come to mind. This is probably a regional/NYC thing but still something I’ve been more on the look out for since reading your paper.