Upcoming Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation Conference at Yale University

Yale University

SML Lecture Hall

April 13th, 9am-5pm

 

Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation

Participants will discuss how cognitive science and moral psychology can help to more effectively motivate individuals to fulfill their moral obligations to alleviate global poverty.  This workshop marks the launch of ASAP’s Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation project (MPPA), which aims to support sustained collaborative and applicable research on this issue.

Program

9:00-9:20 – Opening Remarks and Welcome

9:20-10:00 – Dean Spears (Princeton University), “The Hidden Role of Inferred (Implied?) Effectiveness in the Identifiable Victim Effect?”

10:00-10:40 – Gordon Kraft-Todd (Massachusetts General Hospital/Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School), “It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask for More: Framing Donation Appeals to Optimize Charitable Donations”

10:40-11:20 – Keynote: Paul Slovic (University of Oregon/Decision Research), “Affective and Deliberative Processes Underlying the Arithmetic of Compassion”

11:20-11:30 – Break

11:30 -12:10 – Meena Krishnamurthy (University of Manitoba) and Matthew Lindauer (Yale University), “The Effectiveness of Negative and Positive Duty Based Arguments in Motivating Action to Alleviate Global Poverty”

12:10-12:50 – Luke Buckland (Rutgers University) and Carissa Veliz (CUNY/University of Salamanca), “The Impact of Arguments about Global Poverty on Moral Judgments about Giving”

12:50-2:00 – Lunch

2:00-2:40 – Jay D. Mussen (Harvard University), “Why Don’t We help?: Mere Proximity and Other Factors Affecting the Perceived Moral Obligation to Aid Desperate Strangers”

2:40-3:20 – Judith Lichtenberg (University of Georgetown), “Poverty Alleviation, Demandingness, and the Relativity of Well-Being”

3:20-3:30 – Break

3:30-4:10 – Keynote: Nicole Hassoun (Carnegie Mellon University), “How People Think About Meeting Needs”

4:10-4:50 – William Crouch (Giving What We Can), “Motivating People to Give What They Can: Some findings from the Field”

Sponsors: The British Council, the Global Justice Program of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, the Department of Cognitive Science at Yale University, Kempf Memorial Fund

You can find more information about the conference here.

Please register for the conference by contacting Katie Lewis at: katie@academicsstand.org