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The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter
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! 🎉
The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #9 (June 2023)
We recently released the ninth edition of the EA Behavioral Science Newsletter.
Previous editions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Each newsletter curates papers, forum posts, reports, podcasts, resources, funding opportunities, events, and jobs relevant to the effective altruism and behavioral science community.
We have 969 subscribers, an average open rate of 57%, and we average 37 new subscribers per month.
You can read the newsletter in your browser or below.
June 2023 (#9)
We shortened and restructured the newsletter in response to feedback. Please do this short survey to offer further input!
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
For more information:
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Psychology for Effective Altruism Facebook group
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