- See Also
-
Gwern
- “Timecrimes: Time Travel In Hell”, Gwern 2023
- “Inverse P-Zombies: the Other Direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness”, Gwern 2011
- “Umineko: The Hopium Of The Magics”, Gwern 2018
- “Reasons of State: Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?”, Gwern 2011
- “The Narrowing Circle”, Gwern 2012
- “An Abortion Dialogue”, Gwern 2008
- “The Morality of Sperm Donation”, Gwern 2012
- “LWer Effective Altruism Donations, 2013-2014”, Gwern 2015
- “Long Bets As Charitable Giving Opportunity”, Gwern 2017
- “Terrorism Is Not Effective”, Gwern 2009
- “Charity Is Not about Helping”, Gwern 2011
- “Girl Scouts & Good Corporate Governance”, Gwern 2011
- “Insert, Abort, Retry?”, Gwern 2012
- “Immoral Books”, Gwern 2010
- “On Justifications”, Gwern 2008
-
Links
- “The Dark Triad of Personality and Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility”, Djeriouat 2023
- “The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
- “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Prosocial Behaviour”, Yang & Konrath 2023c
- “The Vanishing Family: They All Have a 50-50 Chance of Inheriting a Cruel Genetic Mutation—Which Means Disappearing into Dementia in Middle Age. This Is the Story of What It’s like to Live With Those Odds”, Kolker 2023
- “Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning”, Ma et al 2023
- “Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence”, Clark et al 2023
- “Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics”, Bush 2023
- “Business-Size Bias in Moral Concern: People Are More Dishonest Against Big Than Small Organizations”, Martuza et al 2023
- “Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men Than Women”, Graso et al 2023
- “Monetizing the Externalities of Animal Agriculture: Insights from an Inclusive Welfare Function”, Kuruc & McFadden 2023
- “The Influence of Affluence on Prosocial Behavior”, Fomina et al 2023
- “Gene-Edited Hens May End Cull of Billions of Chicks”, Ghosh 2022
- “Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Helps Scientists Develop New Test for Condition—Joy Milne, 72, Who Lives in Scotland Has Been Dubbed ‘The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s”, Ebrahimi 2022
- “Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for the Presence and Absence of Health Problems”, Lebowitz et al 2022
- “Permitting Immoral Behavior: A Generalized Compensation Belief Hypothesis”, Wang et al 2022g
- “Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving”, O’Brien 2022
- “The Moralization of Effort”, Celniker et al 2022
- “Testing Heritability of Moral Foundations: Common Pathway Models Support Strong Heritability for the Five Moral Foundations”, Zakharin & Bates 2022
- “A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety”, Adams-Phipps et al 2022
- “Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes”, Hu et al 2022c
- “Many Heads Are More Utilitarian Than One”, Keshmirian et al 2022
- “The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making”, Bonezzi et al 2022
- “Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts”, Andersen et al 2022
- “Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education”, Arold et al 2022 (page 3)
- “Replication Crisis and Placebo Studies: Rebooting the Bioethical Debate”, Blease et al 2022
- “DREAM: Uncovering Mental Models behind Language Models”, Gu et al 2021
- “Laser Ablation of Human Guilt”, Fried et al 2021
- “Children Are Unsuspecting Meat Eaters: An Opportunity to Address Climate Change”, Hahn et al 2021
- “The Search for Predictable Moral Partners: Predictability and Moral (character) Preferences”, Turpin et al 2021
- “What Was the Point of Equality?”, Bejan 2021
- “Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions”, Klebl et al 2021
- “Can Machines Learn Morality? The Delphi Experiment”, Jiang et al 2021
- “Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making”, Decety 2021
- “Animal Minds, Social Change, and the Future of Fisheries Science”, Freeling & Connell 2021
- “If Giving Money to the Red Cross Increases Well-Being, Does Taking Money from the Red Cross Increase Ill-Being?—Evidence from Three Experiments”, Martela & Ryan 2021
- “Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations”, Tellier et al 2021
- “The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism”, Caviola et al 2021
- “A Soul’s View of the Optimal Population Problem”, Croix & Doepke 2021
- “Moral Disciplining: the Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality”, Fitouchi et al 2021
- “Maybe Favors: How to Get More Good Deeds Done”, Zürn et al 2021
- “John Locke As a Reader of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A New Manuscript”, Waldmann 2021
- “An Experimental Test of Fundraising Appeals Targeting Donor and Recipient Benefits”, List et al 2021
- “Language Models Have a Moral Dimension”, Schramowski et al 2021
- “Meta-Analysis on Belief in Free Will Manipulations”, Genschow et al 2021
- “Re-Defending Feline Liberty: a Response to Fischer”, Abbate 2021
- “Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs”, Broockman et al 2021
- “Biotechnology Research Viewed With Caution Globally, but Most Support Gene Editing for Babies To Treat Disease: Majorities across Global Publics Accept Evolution; Religion Factors Prominently in Belief”, Funk et al 2020
- “Why We Fight Over Fiction”, Hanson 2020
- “Sex Differences in Moral Judgements across 67 Countries”, Atari et al 2020
- “Millions of Animals May Be Missing from Scientific Studies”, Chawla 2020
- “Animal Welfare: Antispeciesism, Veganism and a ‘Life worth Living’”, Espinosa 2020
- “Publication Rate in Preclinical Research: a Plea for Preregistration”, Naald et al 2020
- “Evaluating Use Cases for Human Challenge Trials in Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development”, Nguyen et al 2020
- “Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, Rehman 2020
- “Aversion towards Simple Broken Patterns Predicts Moral Judgment”, Gollwitzer et al 2020
- “Animal Ethics and Evolutionary Psychology—10 Ideas”, Fleischman 2020
- “Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate”, Fischer 2020
- “An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron”, Lakeman 2020
- “Against Dog Ownership”, Lakeman 2020
- “Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, Alexander 2020
- “‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response: A Series of Missed Chances by the Federal Government to Ensure More Widespread Testing Came during the Early Days of the Outbreak, When Containment Would Have Been Easier”, Fink & Baker 2020
- “Should We Sacrifice the Utilitarians First?”, Smilansky 2020
- “Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: How Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits”, Anomaly & Jones 2020
- “Cryonics for All?”, Thau 2020
- “The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis”, Lakeman 2020
- “The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia”, Bazzi et al 2019
- “Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents”, Frazier et al 2019
- “Analysis of Official Deceased Organ Donation Data Casts Doubt on the Credibility of China’s Organ Transplant Reform”, Robertson et al 2019
- “Peep Show—The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made”, Lakeman 2019
- “A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-Being”, Abbate 2019
- “A Mulching Proposal”, Keyes et al 2019
- “Moral Permissibility of Action Plans”, Lindner et al 2019
- “The New Epidemic—My Experience of Losing a Friend to Heroin”, Lakeman 2019
- “Killing Rabbits”, Válek 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, Greer 2019
- “Notes on Nggwal”, Buckner 2019
- “Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and Lessons Learned from Our First $25K in Matching”, Singh 2019
- “Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching—Matching Contributions With up to $25,000 in Funding, in ETH”, Singh 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, Greer 2019
- “Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic Selection”, Kemper et al 2019
- “Frequently Overlooked Realistic Moral Bioenhancement Interventions”, Conan 2019
- “Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for Prosocial versus Antisocial Behavior”, Lebowitz et al 2019
- “Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle”, Waytz et al 2019
- “The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction”, Schubert et al 2019
- “Hillbilly Elegy—The Culture of White American Poverty”, Lakeman 2018
- “The High Abortion Cost of Human Reproduction”, Rice 2018
- “Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Eye for an Eye”, Greer 2018
- “Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links”, Kuran 2018
- “Nozick’s Experience Machine: An Empirical Study”, Hindriks & Douven 2017
- “Relating Pattern Deviancy Aversion to Stigma and Prejudice”, Gollwitzer et al 2017
- “We Don’t Want to Know What Will Kill Us: Years of Data on Genetic Testing Reveal That When given the Option, Most People Want Less Information, Not More”, Spinney 2017
- “Willpower Satisficing”, Chappell 2017
- “Everything Is Worse in China”, Greer 2017
- “Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures”, Wehby et al 2017
- “Experimental Studies on the Psychology of Property Rights”, Haji 2017
- “Men of Honor, Men of Interest”, Greer 2016
- “Doing vs. Allowing Harm”, Howard-Snyder & Woollard 2016
- “Switching Away from Utilitarianism: The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment”, Sheskin & Baumard 2016
- “Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Moral Progress”, Buchanan & Powell 2016
- “The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity”, Bostrom et al 2016
- “Discontinuation and Nonpublication of Randomized Clinical Trials Conducted in Children”
- “Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf”, Kuran 2016
- “Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions”, Arrillaga-Andreessen & Murray 2015
- “The Most Predictable Disaster in the History of the Human Race: This Is What Bill Gates Is Afraid Of”, Klein 2015
- “Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?”, Tomasik 2014
- “Meditations on Maoism—Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”, Greer 2014
- “Use of Placebo Controls in the Evaluation of Surgery: Systematic Review”, Wartolowska 2014
- “Are You Morally Modified?: The Moral Effects of Widely Used Pharmaceuticals”, Levy et al 2014
- “Aztec Political Thought”, Marquez 2013
- “Who By Very Slow Decay”, Alexander 2013
- “Refrigerator Safety Study: Case Study Analysis”, Hunter 2013
- “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation”, Davis & Knauss 2013
- “The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States”, Anonymous & Anonymous 2013
- “Doing Enough”
- “Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival”, Hofstadter 2012
- “Self-Experimentation and Its Role in Medical Research”, Weisse 2012
- “Outing the It That Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem”, Bakker 2011
- “Bugs and Beasts Before the Law”, Humphrey 2011
- “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?”, Prinz 2011
- “The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution”, Mankiw & Weinzierl 2010
- “The Disadvantage of a Good Reputation: Disney As a Target for Social Problems Claims”, Best & Lowney 2009
- “Male Rape and Human Rights”, Stemple 2009
- “Buddhist Animal Release Practices: Historic, Environmental, Public Health And Economic Concerns”, Shiu & Stokes 2008
- “Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia”, Alper 2008
- “Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher”, Atreus 2008
- “A Rule Against Perpetuities For The 21st Century”, Schneider 2007
- “Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgements”, Koenigs et al 2007
- “A Good List”, Leithauser 2006
- “Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics”, Drescher 2006
- “The Paradox Of Beneficial Retirement”, Smilansky 2005
- “Forbidden Knowledge”, Kempner et al 2005
- “Jeremy Bentham on Slavery and the Slave Trade”, Rosen 2005
- “Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt”, Strong 2005
- “Consider the Lobster: For 56 Years, the Maine Lobster Festival Has Been Drawing Crowds With the Promise of Sun, Fun, and Fine Food. One Visitor Would Argue That the Celebration Involves a Whole Lot More”, Wallace 2004
- “A Defense of Cannibalism”, Wisnewski 2004
- “Thinking the Unthinkable: Sacred Values and Taboo Cognitions”, Tetlock 2003
- “Genetic Manipulation in Humans As a Matter of Rawlsian Justice”, Brown 2001
- “Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the 20th Century”, DeLong 2000
- “Parachuting for Charity: Is It worth the Money? A 5-Year Audit of Parachute Injuries in Tayside and the Cost to the NHS”, Lee et al 1999
- “The Simple Desire-Fulfillment Theory”
- “Controlled Trials: the 1948 Watershed”, Doll 1998
- “Who Is Arguing About the Cat? Moral Action and Enlightenment According to Dōgen”, Mikkelson 1997
- “Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds”, Tucker & Williams 1997
- “Superhumanism: According to Hans Moravec § On the Inevitability & Desirability of Human Extinction”, Platt 1995
- “Medieval Monogamy”, Betzig 1995
- “The Irrelevance of the Medical Model of Mental Illness to Law and Ethics”, Greenberg & Bailey 1994
- “Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation”, Blackorby & Donaldson 1992
- “A Proposal to Classify Happiness As a Psychiatric Disorder”, Bentall 1992
- “The Kingfisher”, Oliver 1990
- “Of a Happy Life: Book 3”, Seneca 1990
- “Leaving the Bomb Project: A Nuclear Physicist Responsible for Helping Design the Atomic Bomb Tells for the First Time Why He Decided to Leave Los Alamos in 1944”, Rotblat 1985
- “Effectiveness of Measures to Prevent Unintentional Deaths of Infants and Children from Suffocation and Strangulation”, Krauss 1985
- “A Conversation With Jeanne”, Miłosz 1984
- “Putting Cruelty First”, Shklar 1982
- “Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error: Ch2, the domus”, Ladurie 1978
- “In Praise of Self-Deprecation”, Szymborska 1976
- “Behavior Of Young Children Under Conditions Simulating Entrapment In Refrigerators”, Bain et al 1958
- “The Wish Never To Have Been Born”, Cavan 1932
- “Nietzsche and Bizet”, Klein 1925
- “Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813”, Jefferson 1813
- “The Making of Final Fantasy VII”
- “After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough: In a Five-Year Follow-Up, Nearly Two-Thirds of Patients Never Needed Surgery”
- “The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) Represents More Than 85% of the Assisted Reproduction Industry. SART Requires That Its Members Work Only With Agencies That Limit Compensation to Egg-Donors to around $5000 or a Maximum of $10,000 (figures Decided upon by the Ethics Committee of an Affiliated Organization, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)). In Other Words, ASRM-SART Acts As a Buyer's Cartel.”
- “The Right Not to Know: When Ignorance Is Bliss but Deadly”
- “The Reaction to the Harper’s Letter on Cancel Culture Proves Why It Was Necessary: I Was One of the 153 Signers and Am a Veteran of the Twitter Wars. But Even I Was Taken Aback by the Swift, Virulent Response.”
- “Meditations on Moloch”
- “Trope: ‘Kick the Dog’”, TVTropes 2024
- “The Great Penguin Sweater Fiasco”
- “The Government Has Fiercely Decried a Shenzhen Scientist's Gene Editing, in Contrast to Its Push past Ethical Barriers in AI”
- “Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate: Science Could Allow Parents to Select for Taller, Smarter Kids; It’s Just Another Way of Preventing Disease”
- “China’s Bid to Be a DNA Superpower: First China Conquered DNA Sequencing. Now It Wants to Dominate Precision Medicine Too”
- “She Told the Family of a Severely Disabled Man That She Could Help Him to Communicate With the outside World. The Relationship That Followed Would Lead to a Criminal Trial.”
- “We Laughed at the Republican Busybody Who Couldn'T Joke, Declared War on Dirty Paintings, and Peered through Your Bedroom Window. Now That Person Has Switched Sides, and Nobody's Laughing”
- “Living like a Dead Man”
- “Barbra Streisand Is Not Alone. At a South Korean Laboratory, an Once-Disgraced Doctor Is Replicating Hundreds of Deceased Pets for the Rich and Famous. It's Made for More Than a Few Questions of Bioethics.”
- “A New Age of Genetic Screening Is Coming—And We Don’t Have Any Rules for It: New ‘Polygenic’ Screening Techniques Open a Pandora’s Box of Ethical Issues”
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See Also
Gwern
“Timecrimes: Time Travel In Hell”, Gwern 2023
“Inverse P-Zombies: the Other Direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness”, Gwern 2011
Inverse p-zombies: the other direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness
“Umineko: The Hopium Of The Magics”, Gwern 2018
“Reasons of State: Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?”, Gwern 2011
“The Narrowing Circle”, Gwern 2012
“An Abortion Dialogue”, Gwern 2008
“The Morality of Sperm Donation”, Gwern 2012
“LWer Effective Altruism Donations, 2013-2014”, Gwern 2015
“Long Bets As Charitable Giving Opportunity”, Gwern 2017
“Terrorism Is Not Effective”, Gwern 2009
“Charity Is Not about Helping”, Gwern 2011
“Girl Scouts & Good Corporate Governance”, Gwern 2011
“Insert, Abort, Retry?”, Gwern 2012
“Immoral Books”, Gwern 2010
“On Justifications”, Gwern 2008
Links
“The Dark Triad of Personality and Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility”, Djeriouat 2023
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility
“The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
“A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Prosocial Behaviour”, Yang & Konrath 2023c
“The Vanishing Family: They All Have a 50-50 Chance of Inheriting a Cruel Genetic Mutation—Which Means Disappearing into Dementia in Middle Age. This Is the Story of What It’s like to Live With Those Odds”, Kolker 2023
“Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning”, Ma et al 2023
Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning
“Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence”, Clark et al 2023
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence
“Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics”, Bush 2023
Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
“Business-Size Bias in Moral Concern: People Are More Dishonest Against Big Than Small Organizations”, Martuza et al 2023
Business-Size Bias in Moral Concern: People are More Dishonest Against Big than Small Organizations
“Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men Than Women”, Graso et al 2023
Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men than Women
“Monetizing the Externalities of Animal Agriculture: Insights from an Inclusive Welfare Function”, Kuruc & McFadden 2023
Monetizing the externalities of animal agriculture: insights from an inclusive welfare function
“The Influence of Affluence on Prosocial Behavior”, Fomina et al 2023
“Gene-Edited Hens May End Cull of Billions of Chicks”, Ghosh 2022
“Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Helps Scientists Develop New Test for Condition—Joy Milne, 72, Who Lives in Scotland Has Been Dubbed ‘The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s”, Ebrahimi 2022
“Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for the Presence and Absence of Health Problems”, Lebowitz et al 2022
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems
“Permitting Immoral Behavior: A Generalized Compensation Belief Hypothesis”, Wang et al 2022g
Permitting Immoral Behavior: A Generalized Compensation Belief Hypothesis
“Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving”, O’Brien 2022
“The Moralization of Effort”, Celniker et al 2022
“Testing Heritability of Moral Foundations: Common Pathway Models Support Strong Heritability for the Five Moral Foundations”, Zakharin & Bates 2022
“A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety”, Adams-Phipps et al 2022
A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety
“Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes”, Hu et al 2022c
“Many Heads Are More Utilitarian Than One”, Keshmirian et al 2022
“The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making”, Bonezzi et al 2022
The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making
“Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts”, Andersen et al 2022
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
“Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education”, Arold et al 2022 (page 3)
“Replication Crisis and Placebo Studies: Rebooting the Bioethical Debate”, Blease et al 2022
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate
“DREAM: Uncovering Mental Models behind Language Models”, Gu et al 2021
“Laser Ablation of Human Guilt”, Fried et al 2021
“Children Are Unsuspecting Meat Eaters: An Opportunity to Address Climate Change”, Hahn et al 2021
Children are unsuspecting meat eaters: An opportunity to address climate change
“The Search for Predictable Moral Partners: Predictability and Moral (character) Preferences”, Turpin et al 2021
The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences
“What Was the Point of Equality?”, Bejan 2021
“Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions”, Klebl et al 2021
Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions
“Can Machines Learn Morality? The Delphi Experiment”, Jiang et al 2021
“Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making”, Decety 2021
Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making
“Animal Minds, Social Change, and the Future of Fisheries Science”, Freeling & Connell 2021
Animal Minds, Social Change, and the Future of Fisheries Science:
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“If Giving Money to the Red Cross Increases Well-Being, Does Taking Money from the Red Cross Increase Ill-Being?—Evidence from Three Experiments”, Martela & Ryan 2021
“Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations”, Tellier et al 2021
Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations
“The Psychology of (In)Effective Altruism”, Caviola et al 2021
“A Soul’s View of the Optimal Population Problem”, Croix & Doepke 2021
“Moral Disciplining: the Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality”, Fitouchi et al 2021
Moral disciplining: the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality
“Maybe Favors: How to Get More Good Deeds Done”, Zürn et al 2021
“John Locke As a Reader of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A New Manuscript”, Waldmann 2021
John Locke as a Reader of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A New Manuscript
“An Experimental Test of Fundraising Appeals Targeting Donor and Recipient Benefits”, List et al 2021
An experimental test of fundraising appeals targeting donor and recipient benefits
“Language Models Have a Moral Dimension”, Schramowski et al 2021
“Meta-Analysis on Belief in Free Will Manipulations”, Genschow et al 2021
“Re-Defending Feline Liberty: a Response to Fischer”, Abbate 2021
“Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs”, Broockman et al 2021
Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs
“Biotechnology Research Viewed With Caution Globally, but Most Support Gene Editing for Babies To Treat Disease: Majorities across Global Publics Accept Evolution; Religion Factors Prominently in Belief”, Funk et al 2020
“Why We Fight Over Fiction”, Hanson 2020
“Sex Differences in Moral Judgements across 67 Countries”, Atari et al 2020
“Millions of Animals May Be Missing from Scientific Studies”, Chawla 2020
“Animal Welfare: Antispeciesism, Veganism and a ‘Life worth Living’”, Espinosa 2020
Animal welfare: antispeciesism, veganism and a ‘life worth living’
“Publication Rate in Preclinical Research: a Plea for Preregistration”, Naald et al 2020
Publication rate in preclinical research: a plea for preregistration
“Evaluating Use Cases for Human Challenge Trials in Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development”, Nguyen et al 2020
Evaluating Use Cases for Human Challenge Trials in Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development
“Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, Rehman 2020
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism
“Aversion towards Simple Broken Patterns Predicts Moral Judgment”, Gollwitzer et al 2020
Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment
“Animal Ethics and Evolutionary Psychology—10 Ideas”, Fleischman 2020
“Keep Your Cats Indoors: a Reply to Abbate”, Fischer 2020
“An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron”, Lakeman 2020
An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron
“Against Dog Ownership”, Lakeman 2020
“Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, Alexander 2020
Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]
“‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response: A Series of Missed Chances by the Federal Government to Ensure More Widespread Testing Came during the Early Days of the Outbreak, When Containment Would Have Been Easier”, Fink & Baker 2020
“Should We Sacrifice the Utilitarians First?”, Smilansky 2020
“Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: How Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits”, Anomaly & Jones 2020
Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: how Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits
“Cryonics for All?”, Thau 2020
“The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis”, Lakeman 2020
“The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia”, Bazzi et al 2019
The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia
“Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents”, Frazier et al 2019
Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents
“Analysis of Official Deceased Organ Donation Data Casts Doubt on the Credibility of China’s Organ Transplant Reform”, Robertson et al 2019
“Peep Show—The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made”, Lakeman 2019
“A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-Being”, Abbate 2019
A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being
“A Mulching Proposal”, Keyes et al 2019
“Moral Permissibility of Action Plans”, Lindner et al 2019
“The New Epidemic—My Experience of Losing a Friend to Heroin”, Lakeman 2019
“Killing Rabbits”, Válek 2019
“Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, Greer 2019
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
“Notes on Nggwal”, Buckner 2019
“Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and Lessons Learned from Our First $25K in Matching”, Singh 2019
Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and lessons learned from our first $25K in matching
“Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching—Matching Contributions With up to $25,000 in Funding, in ETH”, Singh 2019
Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching—Matching contributions with up to $25,000 in funding, in ETH
“Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, Greer 2019
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit
“Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic Selection”, Kemper et al 2019
Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic Selection
“Frequently Overlooked Realistic Moral Bioenhancement Interventions”, Conan 2019
Frequently overlooked realistic moral bioenhancement interventions
“Asymmetrical Genetic Attributions for Prosocial versus Antisocial Behavior”, Lebowitz et al 2019
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behavior
“Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle”, Waytz et al 2019
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The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction
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