Moral psychology from the lab to the wild: Relief registries as a paradigm for studying real-world altruism.

ABSTRACT: Experimental psychology's recent shift toward low-effort, high-volume methods (e.g., self-reports, online studies) and away from the more effortful study of naturalistic behavior raises concerns about the ecological validity of findings from these fields, concerns that have become particularly apparent in the field of moral psychology. To help address these concerns, we introduce a method allowing researchers to investigate an important, widespread form of altruistic behavior-charitable donations-in a manner balancing competing concerns about internal validity, ecological validity, and ease of implementation: relief registries, which leverage existing online gift registry platforms to allow research subjects to choose among highly needed donation items to ship directly to charitable organi

SUBMITTER: Bo O'Connor B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9191725 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature