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TagLast edit: 28 Oct 2022 17:18 UTC by Teo Ajantaival

The psychology tag is for posts and discussions that are strongly focused on psychology, or that discuss or make heavy use of research methods from psychology.

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Moral psychology | rationality | effective altruism education

Can we trust wellbe­ing sur­veys? A pi­lot study of com­pa­ra­bil­ity, lin­ear­ity, and neutrality

Conrad S17 Mar 2023 10:17 UTC
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

What psy­cholog­i­cal traits pre­dict in­ter­est in effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Lucius Caviola25 Feb 2022 15:38 UTC
248 points
36 comments17 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute re­search agendas

Global Priorities Institute29 Nov 2024 13:26 UTC
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Affec­tive fore­cast­ing: The challenge of pre­dict­ing fu­ture feel­ings and the im­pli­ca­tions for global pri­ori­ties research

Matt Coleman🔹17 Feb 2022 20:36 UTC
57 points
3 comments20 min readEA link

A Con­ver­sa­tion with Daniel Kahneman

Barry Grimes22 Jul 2022 14:29 UTC
29 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

35 In­ter­ac­tive Learn­ing Mo­d­ules Rele­vant to EAs /​ Effec­tive Altru­ism (that are all free)

spencerg23 Jun 2024 17:57 UTC
72 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
341 points
93 comments37 min readEA link

Im­pact ob­ses­sion: Feel­ing like you never do enough good

David_Althaus23 Aug 2023 11:32 UTC
155 points
7 comments37 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer guidance needed for a ca­reer re­search­ing psy­chol­ogy and helping build the EA move­ment further

Riya Gupta11 Jul 2023 8:59 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing a Psy­cholog­i­cal Scale to Mea­sure Scout Mindset

Kalina Poydovska10 Oct 2023 11:47 UTC
46 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

The Ex­tent of Naive Real­ism’s In­fluence on Youth So­cial Movements

Siya Sawhney16 Dec 2024 17:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Role of Be­havi­oural Science in Effec­tive Altruism

Emily Grundy21 Nov 2023 0:59 UTC
41 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

EA, Psy­chol­ogy & AI Safety Research

Sam Ellis26 May 2022 23:46 UTC
28 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Selfless Givers vs. Other­ish Givers

Rakefet Cohen23 Jul 2023 9:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

‘Psy­chol­ogy of Effec­tive Altru­ism’ course syllabus

Geoffrey Miller7 Sep 2022 17:31 UTC
50 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Ste­fan Schu­bert: Psy­chol­ogy of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Longtermism

EA Global25 Mar 2019 14:45 UTC
34 points
4 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

World Hap­piness Re­port 2022: Overview on Our Tenth Anniversary

Barry Grimes21 Mar 2022 9:38 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(worldhappiness.report)

We all teach: here’s how to do it better

Michael Noetel 🔸30 Sep 2022 2:06 UTC
172 points
12 comments24 min readEA link

Let us know how psy­chol­ogy can help in­crease your impact

Inga21 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Psy­chol­ogy and Cli­mate Change: An Overview

Aron_Vallinder27 Sep 2019 6:02 UTC
26 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The EA Be­hav­ioral Science Newslet­ter #5 (June 2022)

PeterSlattery1 Jun 2022 2:47 UTC
16 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Beyond fire alarms: free­ing the groupstruck

Katja_Grace3 Oct 2021 2:33 UTC
61 points
6 comments49 min readEA link

New study on whether an­i­mal welfare re­forms af­fect wider at­ti­tudes to­wards animals

Jamie_Harris2 May 2022 10:00 UTC
52 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cog­ni­tive Science/​Psy­chol­ogy As a Ne­glected Ap­proach to AI Safety

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2017 13:46 UTC
40 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

Psy­cholog­i­cal Ob­sta­cles to Do­ing Good (Bet­ter)

michel23 Aug 2022 19:31 UTC
39 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

The her­i­ta­bil­ity of hu­man val­ues: A be­hav­ior ge­netic cri­tique of Shard Theory

Geoffrey Miller20 Oct 2022 15:53 UTC
49 points
12 comments21 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] So­cial and Be­hav­ioral Science R&D

Anna Harvey11 Aug 2022 10:44 UTC
31 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the EA Be­hav­ioral Science Newsletter

PeterSlattery1 Sep 2021 3:56 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

Does aware­ness of global in­equal­ity in­crease per­sonal giv­ing or sup­port for in­ter­na­tional re­dis­tribu­tive poli­cies?

Luke Freeman28 Sep 2021 3:45 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nber.org)

Con­crete ac­tions to im­prove AI gov­er­nance: the be­havi­our sci­ence approach

Alexander Saeri1 Dec 2022 21:34 UTC
31 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

A Prob­lem with Motivation

James Aitchison25 May 2022 8:35 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Giv­ing What We Can—Pledge page trial (EA Mar­ket Test­ing)

david_reinstein16 May 2022 22:39 UTC
56 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: EA mo­ti­va­tions and psychology

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:24 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Is mind­ful­ness good for you?

John G. Halstead29 Dec 2019 20:01 UTC
76 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

Lucius Caviola30 Aug 2021 17:33 UTC
173 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How to max­i­mize a ca­reer in psy­chol­ogy/​ther­apy for the most good?

Jon Massmann3 Nov 2021 7:42 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

I knew a bit about mis­in­for­ma­tion and fact-check­ing in 2017. AMA, if you’re re­ally des­per­ate.

MichaelA🔸11 May 2020 9:35 UTC
20 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 10:35 UTC
14 points
3 comments14 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Effec­tive out­reach: eval­u­at­ing “Idea in­noc­u­la­tion”

rsturrock22 May 2021 21:44 UTC
26 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Adam Mar­ble­stone: What sets the ex­po­nent of neu­ro­science progress

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Liars

Kelsey Piper5 Apr 2022 18:08 UTC
213 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Guide to talk­ing about effec­tive al­tru­ism and effec­tive giving

Luke Freeman10 Sep 2021 5:15 UTC
57 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

[Pod­cast] How to talk about effec­tive al­tru­ism and giv­ing effectively

Luke Freeman27 Oct 2021 6:13 UTC
12 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Health Be­hav­ior In­ter­ven­tions Liter­a­ture Review

Jamie_Harris24 Jul 2020 16:21 UTC
25 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Baobao Zhang: How so­cial sci­ence re­search can in­form AI governance

EA Global22 Jan 2021 15:10 UTC
9 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

14 Tech­niques to Ac­cel­er­ate Your Learning

davidhartsough15 Apr 2022 12:09 UTC
46 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

EA Mar­ket Testing

david_reinstein30 Sep 2021 15:17 UTC
81 points
23 comments9 min readEA link

Log­a­r­ith­mic Scales of Plea­sure and Pain: Rat­ing, Rank­ing, and Com­par­ing Peak Ex­pe­riences Suggest the Ex­is­tence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering

algekalipso11 Aug 2019 3:49 UTC
163 points
23 comments41 min readEA link

Should we pri­or­tize cog­ni­tive sci­ence in EA?

jackchang11029 Mar 2023 10:11 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJules11 Aug 2024 18:32 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Many ther­apy schools work with in­ner mul­ti­plic­ity (not just IFS)

David_Althaus17 Sep 2022 10:27 UTC
100 points
12 comments18 min readEA link

Rea­sons for op­ti­mism about mea­sur­ing malev­olence to tackle x- and s-risks

Jamie_Harris2 Apr 2024 10:26 UTC
85 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Suggested read­ings & videos for a new col­lege course on ‘Psy­chol­ogy and AI’?

Geoffrey Miller11 Jan 2024 22:26 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey: Per­son­al­ity Traits in the EA Community

Willem Sleegers9 Jul 2024 10:45 UTC
32 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Sub­mit a chap­ter pro­posal for the 2025 World Hap­piness Report

Barry Grimes9 May 2024 9:14 UTC
34 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(worldhappiness.report)

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 3

Daystar Eld22 May 2024 11:58 UTC
8 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

What is malev­olence? On the na­ture, mea­sure­ment, and dis­tri­bu­tion of dark traits

David_Althaus23 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC
106 points
5 comments52 min readEA link

So­ci­aLLM: pro­posal for a lan­guage model de­sign for per­son­al­ised apps, so­cial sci­ence, and AI safety research

Roman Leventov2 Jan 2024 8:11 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Will Ev­i­dence-Based Man­age­ment Prac­tices In­crease Your Im­pact?

Lorenzo Gallí14 Oct 2022 3:22 UTC
25 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

A Re­search Agenda for Psy­chol­ogy and AI

carter allen🔸28 Jun 2024 12:56 UTC
53 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

A new place to dis­cuss cog­ni­tive sci­ence, ethics and hu­man alignment

Daniel_Friedrich4 Nov 2022 14:34 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Seek­ing so­cial sci­ence stu­dents /​ col­lab­o­ra­tors in­ter­ested in AI ex­is­ten­tial risks

Vael Gates24 Sep 2021 21:56 UTC
58 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­plo­ra­tory sur­vey on psy­chol­ogy of AI risk perception

Daniel_Friedrich2 Aug 2022 20:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forms.gle)

Ben Grodeck: Co­op­er­at­ing with fu­ture gen­er­a­tions — an ex­per­i­men­tal investigation

EA Global21 Feb 2020 15:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Reimag­in­ing Malev­olence: A Primer on Malev­olence and Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

Kenneth_Diao11 Apr 2024 12:50 UTC
27 points
3 comments44 min readEA link

Some Tech­ni­cal Prob­lems With Mea­sur­ing Hap­piness (and some solu­tions)

Alexander de Vries22 Mar 2022 18:24 UTC
11 points
6 comments14 min readEA link
(2ndhandecon.substack.com)

In­creas­ing Con­cern for Digi­tal Be­ings Through LLM Per­sua­sion (Em­piri­cal Re­sults)

carter allen🔸7 Jul 2024 16:42 UTC
21 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Why peo­ple want to work on AI safety (but don’t)

Emily Grundy24 Jan 2023 6:41 UTC
70 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing about par­ent­ing as an Effec­tive Altruist

Geoffrey Miller26 Sep 2022 23:35 UTC
70 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Men­tal Health & Pro­duc­tivity Sur­vey 2023

Emily21 Feb 2023 16:56 UTC
78 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Should we tell peo­ple they are morally obli­gated to give to char­ity? [Re­cent Paper]

benleo21 Feb 2023 13:26 UTC
81 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Fore­cast Which Psy­chol­ogy Stud­ies Repli­cate With Me­tac­u­lus for the Trans­par­ent Repli­ca­tions Project

christian29 Aug 2023 20:24 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_Friedrich15 Mar 2023 14:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

The Two Faces of Mo­ral Con­cern: Welfare Pro­mo­tion & Suffer­ing Reduction

Maryam Ali Khan3 Oct 2023 13:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Mem­ber mo­ti­va­tions sur­vey: Why peo­ple pledged to give 10% of their in­come to effec­tive charities

Luke Freeman29 Jul 2021 5:04 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

[Question] What small change in your self talk would make the world a bet­ter place if oth­ers adopted it too?

Said Bouziane22 Nov 2024 22:57 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­fer be­liefs to cre­dence probabilities

Noah Scales1 Sep 2022 2:04 UTC
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

No. Im­pend­ing AGI doesn’t make ev­ery­thing else unim­por­tant.

Igor Ivanov4 Sep 2023 18:56 UTC
14 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

AI Safety is Drop­ping the Ball on Clown Attacks

trevor121 Oct 2023 23:15 UTC
−17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing in­ter­ven­tions for pro­mot­ing proso­cial be­hav­ior might be more cost-effec­tive at in­creas­ing well-be­ing than pro­vid­ing psychotherapy

Falk Lieder22 Jul 2022 7:42 UTC
23 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing au­thor of ‘Good Rea­sons for Bad Feel­ings’, Randy Nesse. What should I ask him?

Robert_Wiblin3 Nov 2023 18:37 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“The Uni­verse of Minds”—call for re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbacon125 Jul 2023 16:55 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On the cor­re­spon­dence be­tween AI-mis­al­ign­ment and cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance us­ing a be­hav­ioral eco­nomics model

Stijn1 Nov 2022 9:15 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Mass Me­dia, Pro­pa­ganda, and So­cial In­fluence: Ev­i­dence of Effec­tive­ness from Courch­esne et al. (2021)

Janet Pauketat10 Jul 2023 20:10 UTC
13 points
0 comments30 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Pilot Re­sults: High-Im­pact Psy­chol­ogy/​ Men­tal Health (HIPsy)

Inga7 Sep 2023 12:27 UTC
41 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Is it valuable to the field of AI Safety to have a neu­ro­science back­ground?

Samuel Nellessen3 Apr 2022 19:44 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing Mul­ti­plier af­ter 14 months

Lucius Caviola28 Jan 2022 22:08 UTC
121 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

You are not too “ir­ra­tional” to know your prefer­ences.

Daystar Eld26 Nov 2024 15:01 UTC
73 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of de­ploy­ing a new intervention

Falk Lieder10 Apr 2023 9:07 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Floors and Ceilings, Frame­works and Feel­ings: SoGive’s Im­pact Anal­y­sis Toolkit for Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds

ishaan15 Apr 2023 9:41 UTC
53 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

How to In­cu­bate Self-Driven In­di­vi­d­u­als (for Lead­ers and Com­mu­nity Builders)

Per Ivar Friborg5 Aug 2022 14:36 UTC
50 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Who were The Righ­teous Among the Na­tions?

Carole Bibas-Barkan18 Apr 2023 16:59 UTC
61 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(yadvashem.org)

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of pre­vi­ous R&D projects

Falk Lieder24 Apr 2023 9:48 UTC
25 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of fu­ture R&D pro­jects and aca­demic research

Falk Lieder8 May 2023 9:58 UTC
23 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 2

Daystar Eld16 May 2023 16:26 UTC
12 points
0 comments18 min readEA link
(daystareld.com)

Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Against a Hap­piness Ceiling: Repli­cat­ing Killingsworth & Kah­ne­man (2022)

Charlie Harrison28 May 2024 16:28 UTC
169 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

if you’re read­ing this it’s too late (a new the­ory on what is caus­ing the Great Stag­na­tion)

rogersbacon18 Jun 2023 11:54 UTC
−2 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Neu­ro­science of time per­cep­tion?

TerracottaKleinBottle4 Sep 2022 4:07 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

“Arc­tic In­stincts? The uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ples of Arc­tic psy­cholog­i­cal adap­ta­tion and the ori­gins of East Asian psy­chol­ogy”—Call for Re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbacon116 Feb 2024 15:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Not Just For Ther­apy Chat­bots: The Case For Com­pas­sion In AI Mo­ral Align­ment Research

Kenneth_Diao29 Sep 2024 22:58 UTC
8 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

StrongMinds (6 of 9): Or­gani­sa­tion-spe­cific factors

ishaan20 Mar 2024 3:39 UTC
13 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back on a MOOC draft plan: Skills for Do­ing Good Better

Michael Noetel 🔸16 Dec 2022 11:42 UTC
41 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Ways of im­prov­ing one’s em­pa­thy and emo­tional in­tel­li­gence?

MikeC19 Jan 2022 10:27 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

You have a back­ground in psy­chol­ogy? Join our ini­ti­a­tive.

Inga31 Oct 2022 10:30 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

More ev­i­dence X-risk am­plifies ac­tion against cur­rent AI harms

Daniel_Friedrich22 Dec 2023 15:21 UTC
27 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(osf.io)

As part of EA Fel­low­ship need the help of ex­perts in the field of ped­a­gogy and /​ or psychology

Daniel Shechter21 Apr 2021 5:15 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best available stud­ies on the effects of smart­phone/​in­sta­gram/​face­book/​tik­tok/​etc use on hu­mans, speci­fi­cally chil­dren?

Charlie_Guthmann26 Nov 2024 5:29 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The case for be­com­ing a black-box in­ves­ti­ga­tor of lan­guage models

Buck6 May 2022 14:37 UTC
90 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Courses and col­lab­o­ra­tive books on Effec­tive Altru­ism with So­cial-Psy­chol­ogy & Judg­ment and De­ci­sion-Mak­ing [Feed­back ap­pre­ci­ated]

Gilad Feldman11 Oct 2022 3:56 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

davidhartsough22 Jun 2022 8:17 UTC
23 points
8 comments23 min readEA link

Data col­lec­tion for AI al­ign­ment—Ca­reer review

Benjamin Hilton3 Jun 2022 11:44 UTC
34 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

The EA Be­hav­ioral Science Newslet­ter #6 (Septem­ber 2022)

PeterSlattery3 Sep 2022 6:06 UTC
18 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

See­ing the effects of your dona­tion and mak­ing in­cre­men­tal choices

david_reinstein5 Nov 2021 21:46 UTC
22 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Ac­cept­ing 2 PhD stu­dents in psy­chol­ogy of EA for next year

Geoffrey Miller7 Oct 2022 22:57 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

9 (com­par­a­tively) ne­glected prin­ci­ples for men­tal health/​ther­apy?

Heartbreak Tuna5 Sep 2024 16:21 UTC
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMath15 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

High-Im­pact Psy­chol­ogy (HIPsy): Pilot­ing a Global Network

Inga29 Sep 2022 13:08 UTC
113 points
5 comments5 min readEA link
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