Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 06/11/2025We 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. 000 0
Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Why 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...osf.ioOSF 100 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriVanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Our 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. 064 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriHarry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025For 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 174 0
Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social 031 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriHenrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Out 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.sciencedirect.comDecision making under extinction riskIn everyday life, people routinely make decisions that involve irredeemable risks such as death (e.g., while driving). Even though these decisions und… 12412 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriVanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 084 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriHarry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025New 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) 🧵… 1104 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriNeil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 13/03/2025FRIDAY - 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. 3261884 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/01/2025Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps! 2355 0
Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I 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...nature.comPower failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience - Nature Reviews NeuroscienceLow-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... 100 0
Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Colleagues 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...mdpi.comHumor Helps: An Experimental Analysis of Pro-Environmental Social Media CommunicationCommunication-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 ... 120 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024You 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! 👋 359194793022 0
Reposted by Glen SpiteriGlobal Priorities Institute @gpioxford.bsky.social · 29/11/2024We’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...globalprioritiesinstitute.orgResearch agenda - Global Priorities InstituteThe 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... 0206 0