About Altruism Choice
Altruism Choice is an open-data study of how people decide between charitable causes when given a budget to allocate. Participants compare two charities at a time and split a notional donation between them.
What you do as a participant
You read short vignettes describing two hypothetical charities and decide how to split a fixed amount between them. There are no right or wrong answers — we are interested in what people choose when faced with constructed trade-offs. After each vignette you can see how others allocated.
Anonymous participation works for the full flow. Signing in adds: a profile that aggregates your choices over time, the option to revisit insights and share them, and the ability to suggest new vignettes for review.
How the data is used
Aggregated, anonymized data informs academic research and teaching materials on the psychology of giving. We do not sell or share data with third parties. Our privacy policy covers the full breakdown of what is collected, how long it is kept, and how to request deletion.
Contributing vignettes
Signed-in users can propose vignettes — a pair of charities, a short scenario, and the moral factor at stake. Submissions are moderated, then reviewed before joining the active pool. We welcome contributions from researchers, instructors, and thoughtful participants.
Classroom use
Instructors can create a classroom, share an invite code, and run a session with their students. Each classroom has its own dashboard with class-level analytics and per-student summaries. Students don't need accounts — they participate via the classroom link. Get in touch via scirenity.com if you'd like to use the platform in a course.
Developed by Scirenity
The platform is developed and maintained by Scirenity — better science, better tools. It is non-commercial, open to collaboration, and built on academic infrastructure.
