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LIT-1748: The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1270) from the publisher's PDF (CC BY), without the supplementary materials; worth reading as the first experiment on how far lay moral concern reaches past the living, and what makes it reach further: salience of the future, its quality, and less sympathy with the victims.
Tagsfuture-generations, moral-psychology
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1270 — The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction

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Schubert, S., Caviola, L. & Faber, N. S. (2019). Scientific Reports, 9, 15100.

Read in full in NOTE-1270, from the publisher’s PDF (CC BY), without the supplementary materials.

Why this is here

Evidence on how far ordinary concern reaches into the future, and what makes it reach further. It bears on Scheffler’s collective afterlife (LIT-1754) and on the owner’s thesis (CLAIM-491). For QUESTION-299.

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