We found that showing donors concrete feedback about their previous donation's impact increased their next donation by 14%. 🚀
➕ The affective rewards ("feel good") of giving were muted without observable consequences BUT making impact visible 👀 helped reinforce generosity.
Why do programs that save millions of lives struggle for support? (E.g., USAID)
New preprint with Falk Lieder explores how the "visibility gap" between giving and impact affects subsequent charitable behavior.
Read more 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.
For all those at #CogSci2025, @glenspiteri.bsky.social will be presenting this work at 14:15 PDT (22:15 BST for those online and UK based)!
“Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations”
Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social
Out in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.
Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT)
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FRIDAY - MARCH 14, 2025
Pi-day (3.14)
Pi has a few more digits than that. But 3.14 can get you far. Wanna get your geek on? Celebrate at 1 am and 59min 26sec. That gets you 3.14 1:59:26, Pi's first seven decimal places.
Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!
I really want to get to know more about the field, but every time I do so, I come across this paper and I dial back my interest. What was once the achilles heel of psychology, might be the achilles heel of neuroscience. Would you have any evidence for the contrary?
www.nature.com/articles/nrn...
Colleagues and I recently wrote a paper on the “FUN” part of pro-environmental communication messages (c.f. F-EAST framework from Sunstein).
See below:
www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15...
You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to see why Bluesky is the place to be.
But welcome scientists, thank you for joining us! 👋
We’re excited to announce our new research agendas – for philosophy, economics and psychology – have now been published! You can read them here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-age...
