Our Courses:
- Rationality and Altruism (Psych 124L, Fall 2024): Syllabus ; Learning Materials
- Advanced Honors Seminar on Rationality and Altruism (Psych 189-SEM-2, Fall 2024): Syllabus ; Learning Materials
- Cognitive Psychology (Psych 120A, Winter 2024): Syllabus ; Learning Materials
All instructor materials are available to instructors upon reasonable request.
Recommended Readings:
- Schubert, S., & Caviola, L. (2024). Effective altruism and the Human Mind: the clash between impact and intuition. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/56384.
- Baron, J. (2023). Thinking and deciding (5th Edition). Cambridge University Press.
- Lieder, F., Prentice, M., & Corwin-Renner, E. R. (2022). An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well-doing. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12704, https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12704
- Gainsburg, I., Pauer, S., Abboub, N., Aloyo, E. T., Mourrat, J. C., & Cristia, A. (2023). How Effective Altruism can help psychologists maximize their impact. Perspectives on Psychological Science, doi:10.1177/17456916221079596
- Crockett, M. J. (2013). Models of morality. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(8), 363-366.
- Caviola, L., Schubert, S., & Greene, J. D. (2021). The psychology of (in) effective altruism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(7), 596-607.
- Cushman, F. (2023). Computational Social Psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 75. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-021323-040420
- Greene, J. D. (2014). Moral tribes. Penguin.
- MacAskill, W. (2022). What we owe the future. Basic books.
- Cushman, F., Kumar, V., & Railton, P. (2017). Moral learning: Psychological and philosophical perspectives. Cognition, 167, 1-10.
- Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900061X
- Psychological barriers to effective altruism. (2024, February 22). In Wikipedia.
Videos
- Penn MindCORE Seminar 2023 – Falk Lieder: Improving Decision-Making
- IICCSSS 2022 – Falk Lieder: Improving Human Decision-Making and Learning
- MPI CHM Seminar 2022 – Falk Lieder: Computational Approach to Understanding & Improving Decision-Making & Learning
- Life Improvement Science 2021 – Falk Lieder: An Emerging Transdisciplinary Research Area
- Glushko Dissertation Prize Talk 2020 – Falk Lieder: Beyond Bounded Rationality: Reverse-Engineering and Enhancing Human Intelligence