Glen Spiteri
glenspiteri.bsky.social
Glen Spiteri
@glenspiteri.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UCLA | judgment & decision-making, moral(ity) learning, altruism | Alumnus @lsepbs.bsky.social

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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.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Glen Spiteri
Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!
January 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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...
Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Low-powered studies lead to overestimates of effect size and low reproducibility of results. In this Analysis article, Munafò and colleagues show that the average statistical power of studies in the n...
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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...
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
December 1, 2024 at 4:08 PM