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Glen Spiteri

@glenspiteri.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at UCLA | judgment & decision-making, moral(ity) learning, altruism | Alumnus @lsepbs.bsky.social {Maltese alien 🇲🇹 in the US 🇺🇸}

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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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...
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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
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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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.
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Decision making under extinction risk
In everyday life, people routinely make decisions that involve irredeemable risks such as death (e.g., while driving). Even though these decisions und…
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 13/03/2025
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.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/01/2025
Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!
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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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...
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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...
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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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...
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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 ...
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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! 👋
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Global Priorities Institute @gpioxford.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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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...
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