September 2023 (#10) 

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• Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: A Field Experiment Encouraging Donors to Share About Charity,  Ike Silver, Deborah A. Small, Marketing Science, 2023
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between economic inequality and prosocial behaviour, 
  Yongzheng Yang, Sara Konrath, Nature Human Behavior, 2023
• Bias and Epistemic Injustice in Conversational AI, Sebastian Laacke, The American journal of bioethics, 2023
• The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Appetite, 2023
• Effects of green nudges on consumer valuation of sustainable food: A discrete choice experiment, Valerija Gottselig, Amelie Wuppermann, Christoph Herrmann, GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2023
• Moral judgments under uncertainty: risk, ambiguity and commission bias, Fei Song, Joel Olney, Felix S. H. Yeung, Current Psychology, 2023
• Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Social Activism, Farzana Afridi et al., IZA Discussion Paper No. 16358, 2023
   
• The U-Shaped Charitable-Giving Curve, Enda P. Hargaden, Nicolas J. Duquette, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2023
• The potential and pitfalls of unit asking in reducing scope insensitivity, Hajdi Moche et al., Judgment and Decision Making, 2023

• Uncertain Optimizing and Opportunity Costs, Richard Chappell, 2023
• Essays on Social Identity and Moral Behavior, Jan Luca Henkel, 2023
• Caring for Future Generations: Longtermism and the Moral Standing of Future People, Stylianos Syropoulos, Kyle Fiore Law, Liane Young, 2023
• Farm Workers’ Perceptions Of Animal Welfare In China, Elena Schaller, Faunalytics, 2023 

• An expert survey on social movements and protest, James Ozden
• Announcing "Forecasting Existential Risk: Evidence from a Long-Run Forecasting Tournament", Forecasting Research Institute
• Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat, Jacob Peacock
• A note of caution about recent AI risk coverage, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

• Can we make the world a 'better' place with behavioural economics?, ePodstemology
• Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI, 80,000 Hours
• What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban), Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
• Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment, 80,000 Hours

Ongoing funding opportunities 

• Open Philanthropy is funding the development of EA-adjacent university courses and early-career individuals
• A list of EA funding opportunities by Effective Thesis
• See EA Funds for other opportunities

New opportunities:
 

• Professor of Human Values & Moral Development, Washington University in St. Louis

Ongoing opportunities:
 

• For EA: the 80,000 Hours Job board, the Effective Altruism Job Postings Facebook group and the EA Opportunities Board
   
• For behavioural science: Habit Weekly's jobs board
• For coaching, research, and supervision: the Effective Thesis website and newsletter
• For animal welfare: Animal Advocacy Careers and the Effective Animal Activism talent database

New events:

• Fauna Connections (September 14, 2023 from 12:00pm to 5:30pm EST). Academics and scientists from the social and behavioral sciences and related disciplines will present original research that discusses the real-life implications and recommendations for animal advocates.

Ongoing events:
 

• EA conferences: See the EA Global website 
• EA events: See the EA Forum's Events page 

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