Psychologie morale

La psychologie morale est un domaine d’étude à l’intersection de la philosophie et de la psychologie. Elle couvre des domaines tels que le raisonnement, le développement moral, la motivation morale et les origines évolutives de la moralité.

Les altruistes efficaces se sont particulièrement intéressés à plusieurs sujets de psychologie morale, notamment la psychologie du don efficace ;⁠a la psychologie du risque existentiel ;⁠b la psychologie de l’éthique de la population ;⁠c la psychologie du futur ;⁠d la psychologie du spécisme ;⁠e la psychologie de l’utilitarisme ;⁠f la psychologie de la motivation altruiste ;⁠g les liens entre le fait de donner et le bonheur ;⁠h et les traits de personnalité des altruistes efficaces⁠i.

Pour en savoir plus

Spencer Greenberg (2021) EA efficacy and community norms with Stefan Schubert, Clearer Thinking, 29 mai.

Entrées associées

biais cognitif • don efficace • risque existentiel • éthique de la population • insensibilité à l’étendue • spécisme • actualisation temporelle • utilitarisme

a

Dean Karlan, John A. List & Eldar Shafir (2011) Small matches and charitable giving: evidence from a natural field experiment, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, p. 344–350 ; Lucius Caviola et al. (2014) The evaluability bias in charitable giving: saving administration costs or saving lives?, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 9, p. 303–315 ; Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert & Jason Nemirow (2020) The many obstacles to effective giving, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 15, p. 159–172 ; Bethany Burum, Martin A. Nowak & Moshe Hoffman (2020) An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 4, pp. 1245-1257 ; Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert & Joshua D. Greene (2021) The psychology of (in)effective altruism, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 25, p. 596–607 ; Stefan Schubert (2018) Why aren’t people donating more effectively?, Effective Altruism Global, 8 juin ; Jonathan Z. Berman et al. (2018) Impediments to effective altruism: The role of subjective preferences in charitable giving, Psychological Science, vol. 29, p. 834–844. 

b

Stefan Schubert, Lucius Caviola & Nadira S. Faber (2019) The psychology of existential risk: moral judgments about human extinction, Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 15100, pp. 1-8. 

c

Lucius Caviola et al. (2022) Population ethical intuitions, Cognition, vol. 218, 104941. 

d

Aron Vallinder (2019) Psychology of the future: Bibliography, unpublished. 

e

Lucius Caviola (2019) How We Value Animals: The Psychology of Speciesism, PhD thesis, University of Oxford ; Lucius Caviola, Jim A. C. Everett & Nadira S. Faber (2019) The moral standing of animals: Towards a psychology of speciesism, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 116, p. 1011–1029 ; Lucius Caviola & Valerio Capraro (2020) Liking but devaluing animals: emotional and deliberative paths to speciesism, Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 11, 8. 

f

Guy Kahane et al. (2018) Beyond sacrificial harm: a two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology, Psychological Review, vol. 125, p. 131–164 ; Jim A. C. Everett & Guy Kahane (2020) Switching tracks? Towards a multidimensional model of utilitarian psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 24, p. 124–134. 

g

Kyle Fiore Law, Dylan Campbell & Brendan Gaesser (2021) Biased benevolence: The perceived morality of effective altruism across social distance, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 53, p. 426–444. 

h

William MacAskill, Andreas Mogensen & Toby Ord (2018) Giving isn’t demanding, édité par Paul Woodruff, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 178–203 ; Max Dalton (2020) Some extremely rough research on giving and happiness, Effective Altruism Forum, 9 septembre. 

i

Elizabeth E. (2020) Correlations between cause prioritization and the big five personality traits, Effective Altruism Forum, 24 septembre.