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1 | Name | Institution (please correct if wrong as we had to guess in some cases) | What's your email (if you're up for being contacted)? | Briefly, what are some of your research interests? | Briefly, what are some topics you'd like to discuss with others? | If you are looking for collaborators, what are you looking to collaborate on? | What is your website (if you have one)? | If you're on twitter, what's your handle? | Will attend online meetup on 9 January? (Yes/No) | |
18 | Andres Montealegre | Cornell | am2849@cornell.edu | moral psychology; judgment and decision making; research methods | Social barriers to effective altruism | EA related moral psych/jdm research projects | andres-montealegre.com | @AndrsMontealegr | ||
19 | Lance Bush | Cornell | ||||||||
20 | Shane Timmons | Erasmus University of Amsterdam | ||||||||
26 | Claire Boine | Harvard | cboine@successif.org | AI law, AI policy, how to influence behavioral change, how beliefs influence policy positions, communication interventions to drive policy support | https://scholar.harvard.edu/claireboine | @claireboine | Yes | |||
27 | Evan DeFilippis | Harvard | defilippis@gmail.com | Interventions to reduce political antipathy. Understanding the mechanisms of belief change and persuasion. Prediction markets | Strategies to improve collective, team intelligence, team-based forecasting, interventions to facilitate belief change | @defilippisevan | Yes | |||
28 | Lucius Caviola | Harvard | lucius.caviola@gmail.com | psychology of (in)effective giving, moral attitudes towards animals, moral views about xrisk and the future of humanity, utilitarianism | psych barriers to longtermism | research collaboration on any of the topics I research | http://luciuscaviola.com | @LuciusCaviola | Yes | |
29 | Mattie Toma | Harvard | mattietoma@g.harvard.edu | Institutional decision-making, psychology of altruistic decision-making, global poverty, animal welfare | https://www.mattietoma.com/ | @mattietoma | ||||
30 | Emily Corwin-Renner | Harvard University | emilycorwinrenner1@gmail.com | Motivation, making valuable activities (e.g. learning, or effectively helping others) more appealing and enjoyable | https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/lead-graduate-school-research-network/ueber-uns/mitglieder/corwin-renner/ | @ecorwinrenner | Yes | |||
31 | Samuel Salzer | Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen | samuel.salzer@gmail.com | habits, long-term behavior change, scaling behavior change, digital behavior change interventions | www.samuelsalzer.com | @samuelsalzer | Yes | |||
36 | Mike Prentice | Kellog | ||||||||
37 | Falk Lieder | Kellogg | falk.lieder@tuebingen.mpg.de | How can we motivate and empower people to pursue prosocial goals in an effective manner? key words: effective well-doing, personal growth, rationality enhancement, digital interventions, goal setting, goal pursuit, metacognitive learning | Life Improvement Science Conference Research priorities for the behavioral sciences; quantifying the positive impact of prosocial behaviors other than donating money; interventions for promoting the effective pursuit of prosocial goals; psychological mechanisms of doing good effectively; How can we motivate and empower more people to pursue important prosocial goals and values in an effective manner? How can we make altruists more effective? | developing measures of the positive impact of prosocial behaviors other than donating money; writing a position paper on what behavioral scientists should work on to do the greatest amount of good; building a community of people interested in understanding and promoting effective altruism through behavioral science; organizing a conference on the science of doing good; designing digital interventions for promoting effective altruism and personal growth and evaluating them in field experiments | https://re.is.mpg.de | @FalkLieder | yes | |
38 | Ari Kagan | Max Planck Institute | ari@givemomentum.com | Donation psychology, social entrepreneurship, effective giving, personal finance, habit formation, commitment devices | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-kagan-7313b58b/ | @arikagan_ | ||||
39 | Nick Fitz | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen | fitznich@gmail.com | applying behavioral science to EA topics, EA entrepreneurship, moral psychology, JDM, effective giving, EA community building, x-risk psychology, mental health | applying behavioral science to EA topics (+ hiring EAs) | all sorts of applied EA/psych topics for our research council | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-fitz-nf123/ | @NickFitz___ | ||
45 | Jan Brauner | Northeastern University | jan.brauner@gmx.de | |||||||
46 | Stefan Schubert | NYU | stefanfredrikschubert@gmail.com | psychology of effective giving, psychology of existential risk, judgment and decision-making, utilitarianism, epistemology | https://stefanfschubert.com/ | @StefanFSchubert | ||||
48 | Jonas Frey | Oxford | jonas.frey.dphil2017@said.oxford.edu | Behavioural and Experimental Economics | I am happy to join experimental projects I probably have most to offer to a project where the experiment is complicated to program but I am interested in other projects as well | www.jonasfrey.net | @JonasSFrey | |||
49 | Akash Wasil | Oxford | wasil@sas.upenn.edu | Scalable mental health interventions, digital mental health, global mental health, effective giving | Interventions, online experiments, and field experiments relating to mental health, effective giving, promoting EA, and other EA-aligned topics. | I have been working with professors at Penn on a short (45-60 min) online mental health promotion intervention that's based on CBT and positive psychology. We're currently conducting trials with HS students and college students in the US, India, Kenya, and Greece. Would love to connect with people who are interestd in learning more about the intervention, testing/disseminating it, etc! Also: Intervention design & dissemination, statistics/R, conducting online experiments relating to mental health and effective giving | https://akashwasil.wixsite.com/info | @AkashWasil | ||
52 | Jessie Sun | Penn | jesssun@sas.upenn.edu | Are moral people happier? What are the causes and consequences of moral self-improvement? | How to make academic research more effective. | about.me/jessiesun | @JessieSunPsych | |||
53 | Abigail Novick | Penn | Anovick@princeton.edu | Moral psychology, cognitive psychology, jdm, psychology of x risks/risk taking behavior, effective giving, mental health | High impact reseach questions in the behavioral sciences, best ways to improve people's decision making around x risks and non-intuitive moral conundrums, most things ea psych related | High impact research in behavioral sciences | https://scholar.princeton.edu/abigailnovickhoskin/home | Yes :) | ||
54 | Gregg Sparkman | Penn | greggrs@princeton.edu | Social psychology, climate change, social inequity, and social change/dynamic norms | How to scale interventions; opportunities to collaborate with non-profits and other (non-academic) sectors; climate-psychology intersections | Climate policy/activism has interventions; plant-based food interventions; theory on social change / how to leverage social influence. | greggrs.mycpanel.princeton.edu/ | |||
55 | Victoria J.H. Ritvo | Penn | vej@princeton.edu | cognitive psychology / neuroscience, memory & learning, mental health | any topic at the intersection of EA and psych | Yes | ||||
56 | Willem Sleegers | Princeton | w.sleegers@me.com | psychology of human-animal relations, misconceptions / false beliefs, cognitive dissonance | wild animal suffering; meta-analyses | www.willemsleegers.com | @willemsleegers | |||
57 | William McAuliffe | Princeton | williamhbmcauliffe@gmail.com | cooperation, morality, personality, wild animal welfare | ea movement building within behavioral science | williamhbmcauliffe.com | yes | |||
59 | David Reinstein | Rethink Priorities | daaronr@gmail.com | Determinants of (effective) giving choices, field experiments, impact of providing 'quantitative impact information' on generosity, open science and robust methodology, behavioral economics | Putting together academic/peer-review/conference infrastructure for 'behavioral science of effective giving'. Feedback and collaboration on 'Barriers to Effective Giving' synthesis and meta-analysis. Pooling resources for field experiments. Access to FB Fundraiser API for a field experiment. Research with impact. | 1. EA Market Testing team -- running many high-stakes field experiments with charities and orgs; looking for co-authors to help oversee and analyse these 2. Coauthors and users/commenters on : "Barriers to Effective Giving" collaborative project and meta-analysis; collaboration on open high-value alternative to traditional journals; field experiment collaborators, collaborators on related impact projects | https://daaronr.github.io/markdown-cv/ (web CV links other pages and projects) | @givingtools | Yes | |
60 | Gizem Yalcin | Rethink Priorities | yalcin@rsm.nl | technology, algorithmic decision making, effective altruism | www.linkedin.com/in/yalcingizem | @yalcingizem | ||||
62 | Amanda Metskas | Rethink Priorities & Maastricht (Formerly Exeter Economics) | ||||||||
63 | Clare Harris | SparkWave.tech | claredianeharris7@gmail.com | Too many to list, and I'm very junior in the field so don't have much experience yet. But I'm especially interested in cooperation, polarization, do-gooder derogation, and malevolent traits (as well as how these interact with x- and s-risks) | Excited to discuss literally any of the topics people are listing in this sheet! | https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-diane-harris-23a4076b/ | @ClareDHarris | Maybe (if I wake up early enough) | ||
64 | Jeremy Stevenson | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | ||||||||
70 | Vael Gates | Spotify | vaelgates@gmail.com | Ethnography of AI researchers; broadly, social science methods applied to longtermist AI alignment | not sure yet | vaelgates.com | Yes | |||
71 | Neela Saldanha | St Andrews | neela.saldanha@gmail.com | Behavior change & development: health care, financial wellbeing | How can we share resources around behavior change in development particularly around effective interventions? Career resources | Pretty open | neelasaldanha.wordpress.com | @NeelaSaldanha | No | |
72 | Max Räuker | Stanford | mraeuker@icloud.com | Confidence judgements, introspection, AI forecasting, human-inspired AI pathways, longtermism | What can a cognitive scientist do to help with AI alignment, robustness and AI strategy? | |||||
73 | Meia Chita-Tegmark | Stanford | meiachitategmark@gmail.com | Mental models of artificial social agents, mental representations of the future that involve transformative AI, social interactions with artificial social agents, technological regulation | how to create an organized community of EA behavioral scientists and what should our research agenda be | I want co-authors for a few papers on EA and psych | ||||
77 | David Zimmerman | Tufts University | zimmerman.david.b@gmail.com | making complex risk decisions more tractable, financial decision making, improving institutional decision making | Not sure, but I would be happy to talk about EA and decision making topics | @d_zimmerman_jdm | Yes | |||
86 | Anna Riedl | University of Amsterdam | annariedl.office@gmail.com | bounded rationality, collective intelligence, formal (e.g. Bayesian) epistemology, behavioral design...more on my website (background: cognitive science with specialization in decision science) | Currently looking for PhD position or job in industry | www.riedlanna.com | @annaleptikon | |||
89 | Bastian Jaeger | Tilburg University | bxjaeger@gmail.com | psychology of effective giving, psychology of human-animal relations, stereotypes and discrimination, judgment and decision-making | https://bastianjaeger.wordpress.com/ | @bxjaeger | Yes |