Glen Spiteri
@glenspiteri.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UCLA | judgment & decision-making, moral(ity) learning, altruism | Alumnus @lsepbs.bsky.social
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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...
New preprint with Falk Lieder explores how the "visibility gap" between giving and impact affects subsequent charitable behavior.
Read more 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
New preprint with Falk Lieder explores how the "visibility gap" between giving and impact affects subsequent charitable behavior.
Read more 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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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.
In this article, Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making. @maxmaier.bsky.social @vancityreynolds.bsky.social @vanessachg.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost–benefit reasoning - Nature Human Behaviour
Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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.
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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
“Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations”
Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
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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July 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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
“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
July 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social
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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.
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.
June 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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.
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.
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Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We updated our preprint on moral decision-making in LLMs (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with a new study investigating sources of the yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias. Results show that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. (w/ @maxmaier.bsky.social and Falk Lieder)
June 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Glen Spiteri
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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May 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
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.
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Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!
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...
See below:
www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15...
Humor Helps: An Experimental Analysis of Pro-Environmental Social Media Communication
Communication-based interventions are popular among both governmental and non-governmental organizations in many environmental domains. Yet, studies on the role of humor in social media communication ...
www.mdpi.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!
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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! 👋
But welcome scientists, thank you for joining us! 👋
November 28, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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! 👋
But welcome scientists, thank you for joining us! 👋
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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...
Research agenda - Global Priorities Institute
The central focus of GPI is what we call ‘global priorities research’: research into issues that arise in response to the question, ‘What should we do with a given amount of limited resources if our a...
globalprioritiesinstitute.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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...