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Artificial Intelligence

• The Societal Response to Potentially Sentient AI
  Caviola, L. (2025)

• Forecasting Digital Minds Takeoff Scenarios: Expert Survey
  Caviola, L. & Saad, B. (2025)

• Reluctance to Harm AI
  Allen, C. & Caviola, L. (2025)

• Digital Sentience Skepticism
  Ladak, A. & Caviola, L. (2025)

• Subjective experience in AI systems: What do AI researchers and the public believe?
  Dreksler, D., Caviola, L., Allen, C., Lewis, J., Mays, K., Sebo, J., Chalmers, D. (2025)
  Access with password ‘ai’

• The Social Science of Digital Minds: Research Agenda
  Caviola, L. (2024)

• AI rights will divide us
  Caviola, L. (2024)

• Increasing concern for digital beings through LLM persuasion
  Allen, C. & Caviola, L. (2024)

• Digital minds takeoff scenarios
  Saad, B. & Caviola, L. (2024)

• Can AI can outperform humans in predicting correlations between personality items
  Schoenegger, P., Greenberg, S., Lewis, J., & Caviola, L. (2024)
  Nature Communications Psychology

Global Catastrophic Risk

• Crying wolf: Warning about societal risks can be reputationally risky
  Caviola*, L., Coleman*, M., Winter, C., & Lewis, J. (2024) *joint first-authorship
  Summary: The social disincentives of warning about unlikely risks

• Communicating Tail-Risk Credibly
  Neto, L. M., Lewis, J., & Caviola, L. (2025)
  Revise and Resubmit at Nature Climate Change

• It only takes one: Unilateral decisions arise from failures of reasoning
  Lewis, J., Allen, C., & Caviola, L. (2024)

• Beliefs about the end of humanity: How bad, likely, and important is human extinction?
  Coleman*, M., Caviola*, L., Lewis, J., & Goodwin, G. (2024) *joint first-authorship

• Misjudgment exacerbates collective action problems
  Lewis, J., Srna, S., Morrissey, E., Wilks, M., Winter, C., & Caviola, L. (2024)

• Temporal distance reduces ingroup favoritism
  Schubert, S., Caviola, L., Savulescu, J. & Faber, N.S. (2024)

• Population ethical intuitions
  Caviola, L., Althaus, D., & Mogensen, A., & Goodwin, G. (2022)
  Cognition

• The psychology of existential risk: Moral judgments about human extinction
  Schubert*, S., Caviola*, L., & Faber, N.S. (2019) *joint first-authorship
  Scientific Reports

Effective Giving

• Effective Altruism and the Human Mind
  Schubert, S. & Caviola, L.. (2024)
  Oxford University Press

• Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micromatching
  Caviola, L. & Greene, J.D. (2023)
  Science Advances
  Media articles: Project Syndicate with Peter Singer; LA Times with Joshua Greene

• Investigating (sequential) unit asking: An unsuccessful quest for scope sensitivity in willingness to donate judgments
  Maier, M., Caviola, L., Schubert, S., & Harris, A. J. (2023)
  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

• How many students are familiar with and sympathetic towards effective altruism?
  Caviola, L. Morrissey, E., S., Lewis, J. (2022)

• What psychological traits predict interest in effective altruism?
  Caviola, L. Althaus, D., Schubert, S., Lewis, J. (2022)

• The psychology of (in)effective altruism
  Caviola, L. Schubert, S., & Greene, J.D. (2021)
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Donors vastly underestimate differences in charities’ effectiveness
  Caviola*, L. Schubert*, S., Teperman, E., Moss, D., Greenberg, S., & Faber, N.S. (2020) *joint first-authorship
  Judgment and Decision Making

• The many obstacles to effective giving
  Caviola*, L. Schubert*, S., & Nemirow, J. (2020) *joint first-authorship
  Judgment and Decision Making

• Evaluability bias in charitable giving: Saving administration costs or saving lives?
  Caviola, L., Faulmüller, N, Everett, J.A.C., Savulescu, J., & Kahane, G. (2014)
  Judgment and Decision Making

• Doing good by doing nothing? The role of social norms in explaining default effects in altruistic contexts
  Everett, J.A.C., Caviola, L., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N. (2014)
  European Journal of Social Psychology

Animals

• When development constricts our moral circles
  Marshall, J., Wilks, M., Caviola, L., Neldner, K. (2025)
  Revise and Resubmit at Nature Human Behavior

• Why do children care more about animals than adults do?
  Caviola*, L., Wilks*, M., et al. (2024) *joint first-authorship

• Children value animals more than adults do: A conceptual replication and extension
  Paruzel-Czachura, M., Maier, M., Warmuz, R., Wilks, M., & Caviola, L. (2024)
  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

• Humans First: Why people value animals less than humans
  Caviola, L., Schubert, S., Kahane, G., & Nadira, N.S. (2022)
  Cognition

• Are the folk utilitarian about animals?
  Kahane, G., & Caviola, L. (2022)
  Philosophical Studies

• Children prioritize humans over animals less than adults do
  Wilks*, M., Caviola*, L., Kahane, G., & Bloom, P. (2021) *joint first-authorship
  Psychological Science

• Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism for people? Harming animals and humans for the greater good
  Caviola, L., Kahane, G., Everett, J.A.C, Teperman, E., Savulescu, J., Faber, N.S. (2020)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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• The moral standing of animals: Towards a psychology of speciesism
  Caviola, L., Everett, J.A.C., & Faber, N.S. (2019)
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  files: Speciesism Scale, Speziesismus-Skala (German translation), Speciesisme Schaal (Dutch translation)

• Liking but devaluing animals: Emotional and deliberative paths to speciesism
  Caviola, L. & Capraro, V. (2020)
  Social Psychological and Personality Science

• Speciesism, generalized prejudice, and perceptions of prejudiced others
  Everett, J.A.C., Caviola, L., Savulescu, J., & Faber, N.S. (2019)
  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

• How we value animals: the psychology of speciesism
  Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford (2019)

Ethics

• Signaling (in)tolerance: the reputational implications of metaethical relativism and objectivism
  Moss, D., Montealegre, A., Bush, L. S., Caviola, L., & Pizarro, D. (2024)

• Moral psychology and utilitarianism
  Caviola, L. & Greene, J. (2024)
  In R.Y. Chappell, D. Meissner, and W. MacAskill (eds.), An Introduction to Utilitarianism.

• Virtues for real-world utilitarians
  Schubert, S. & Caviola, L. (2021)
  In R.Y. Chappell, D. Meissner, and W. MacAskill (eds.), An Introduction to Utilitarianism.
  In H. Viciana, A. Gaitán, and F. Aguiar (eds.), Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy.

• Should you save the more useful? The effect of generality on moral judgments about rescue and indirect effects
  Caviola, L., Schubert, S., & Mogensen, A. (2020)
  Cognition

• Beyond sacrificial harm: positive and negative dimensions of utilitarian psychology
  Kahane, G., Everett, J.A.C., Earp, B.D., Caviola, L., Faber, N.S., Crockett, M.J., Savulescu, J. (2017)
  Psychological Review, 125
  * SPSP Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize (2018)
  files: OUS, OUS (German translation)

  Moral hypocrisy in economic games—how prosocial behavior is shaped by social expectations
  Caviola, L. & Faulmüller, N. (2014)
  Frontiers Psychology

• How stress influences our morality
  Caviola, L. & Faber, N.S. (2014)
  The Inquisitive Mind

Bioethics

• Will human-animal chimeras cause moral confusion? Exploring public attitudes
  Devolder, K., Rottman, J., Xiao, Q., Kahane, G., Caviola, L., Yip, L., Faber, N. (2025)
  Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

• Recognizing the diversity of cognitive enhancements
  Veit, W., Earp, B. D.., Faber, N., Bostrom, N., Caouette, J., Mannino, A., Caviola, L., Sandberg, A., & Savulescu. (2020)
  AJOB Neuroscience

• Nudging immunity: the case for opt out vaccination of children in school and day care
  Giubilini, A., Caviola, L., Maslen, H., Douglas, T., Nussberger, A. M., Faber, N., Vanderslott, S., Loving, S., Harrison, M. & Savulescu, J. (2019)
  HEC Forum

• Worth living or worth dying? The views of the general public about allowing disabled children to die
  Brick, C., Kahane, G., Wilkinson, D., Caviola, L., & Savulescu, J. (2019)
  Journal of Medical Ethics

• Is the non-identity problem relevant to public health and policy? An online survey
  Doolabh, K., Caviola, L., Savulescu, J., Selgelid, M., & B Wilkinson, D. (2019)
  BMC Medical Ethics

• Zika, contraception and the non-identity problem
  Doolabh, K., Caviola, L., Savulescu, J., Selgelid, M., & Wilkinson, D. J. (2017)
  Developing World Bioethics

• Pills or push-ups? Effectiveness and public perception of pharmacological and non-pharmacological cognitive enhancement
  Caviola, L., & Faber, N. (2015)
  Frontiers in Psychology

• Attitudes towards pharmacological cognitive enhancement – a review
  Schelle K. S., Faber, N., Caviola, L., & Hewstone, M. (2014)
  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

• Biases affecting moral intuitions about cognitive enhancement
  Caviola, L., Mannino, A., Savulescu, J., & Faulmüller, N. (2014)
  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience