ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science
Why Do People Donate to Ineffective Charities?
When people donate to charity, they often choose to donate to ineffective charities. Why is this? Psychologists have only recently started to investigate this question. This session explores the roles that misconceptions and preferences antithetical to effectiveness play in explaining this phenomenon.
Chairs & Discussants
- Lucius CaviolaChair
University of Oxford
Presentations
- Impediments to Effective Altruism: The Role of Subjective Preferences in Charitable GivingDeborah Small
- Integrating What We Know: The Overdetermination Hypothesis of Ineffective GivingStefan Schubert
- Evolutionary Explanations of Ineffective GivingJason Nemirow
- Effective Altruism and How People Underestimate the Differences in Charities’ EffectivenessLucius Caviola
