Effective Altruism and the Human Mind

Stefan Schubert is a researcher in philosophy and moral psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He did his PhD at Lund University, Sweden, and has subsequently worked at the University of Oxford and LSE. In recent years, his research has focused on effective altruism and longtermism, broadly construed. Lucius Caviola is a moral psychologist at the University of Oxford and Harvard University. He completed his PhD in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on moral attitudes and decision-making in pro-social contexts, including charitable giving, moral circle expansion, and societal risk reduction.

Effective Altruism and the Human Mind is a pioneering study of the psychology of giving and the barriers to giving more effectively. If this important book is widely read and its lessons heeded, it will do an immense amount of good.