Psicologia morale

La psicologia morale è un campo di studi all’intersezione tra filosofia e psicologia. Copre aree come il ragionamento, lo sviluppo morale, la motivazione morale e le origini evolutive della moralità.

Gli altruisti efficaci si sono interessati in modo particolare a diversi argomenti di psicologia morale, tra cui la psicologia delle donazioni efficaci,⁠a la psicologia del rischio esistenziale,⁠b la psicologia dell’etica delle popolazioni,⁠c la psicologia del futuro;⁠d la psicologia dello specismo,⁠e la psicologia dell’utilitarismo,⁠f la psicologia della motivazione altruistica,⁠g il legame tra donazioni e felicità⁠h e i tratti di personalità degli altruisti efficaci.⁠i

Ulteriori letture

Spencer Greenberg (2021) EA efficacy and community norms with Stefan Schubert, Clearer Thinking, 29 di maggio.

Voci correlate

bias cognitivi • donazioni efficaci • rischio esistenziale • etica delle popolazioni • insensibilità alla portata • specismo • sconto temporale • utilitarismo

a

Dean Karlan, John A. List & Eldar Shafir (2011) Small matches and charitable giving: evidence from a natural field experiment, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, pp. 344–350; Lucius Caviola et al. (2014) The evaluability bias in charitable giving: saving administration costs or saving lives?, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 9, pp. 303–315; Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert & Jason Nemirow (2020) The many obstacles to effective giving, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 15, pp. 159–172; Bethany Burum, Martin A. Nowak & Moshe Hoffman (2020) An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 4, pp. 1245–1257; Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert & Joshua D. Greene (2021) The psychology of (in)effective altruism, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 25, pp. 596–607; Stefan Schubert (2018) Why aren’t people donating more effectively?, Effective Altruism Global, 8 di giugno; Jonathan Z. Berman et al. (2018) Impediments to effective altruism: The role of subjective preferences in charitable giving, Psychological Science, vol. 29, pp. 834–844. 

b

Stefan Schubert, Lucius Caviola & Nadira S. Faber (2019) The psychology of existential risk: moral judgments about human extinction, Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 15100, pp. 1–8. 

c

Lucius Caviola et al. (2022) Population ethical intuitions, Cognition, vol. 218, 104941. 

d

Aron Vallinder (2019) Psychology of the future: Bibliography, unpublished. 

e

Lucius Caviola (2019) How We Value Animals: The Psychology of Speciesism, PhD thesis, University of Oxford; Lucius Caviola, Jim A. C. Everett & Nadira S. Faber (2019) The moral standing of animals: Towards a psychology of speciesism, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 116, pp. 1011–1029; Lucius Caviola & Valerio Capraro (2020) Liking but devaluing animals: emotional and deliberative paths to speciesism, Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 11, 8. 

f

Guy Kahane et al. (2018) Beyond sacrificial harm: a two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology, Psychological Review, vol. 125, pp. 131–164; Jim A. C. Everett & Guy Kahane (2020) Switching tracks? Towards a multidimensional model of utilitarian psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 24, pp. 124–134. 

g

Kyle Fiore Law, Dylan Campbell & Brendan Gaesser (2021) Biased benevolence: The perceived morality of effective altruism across social distance, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 53, pp. 426–444. 

h

William MacAskill, Andreas Mogensen & Toby Ord (2018) Giving isn’t demanding, a cura di Paul Woodruff, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 178–203; Max Dalton (2020) Some extremely rough research on giving and happiness, Effective Altruism Forum, 9 di settembre. 

i

Elizabeth E. (2020) Correlations between cause prioritization and the big five personality traits, Effective Altruism Forum, 24 di settembre.