Cause Area: Animal Sentience
Research Summary: The Era Beyond Eisemann—Insect Pain in the 21st Century
Prioritizing animals of uncertain sentience
This is the third post in the CURVE—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation—series. In this post, Hayley Cla...
If contractualism, then AMF
This is the second post in the CURVE—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation—series. In this post, the resea...
“Dimensions of Pain” workshop: Summary and updated conclusions
Rethink Priorities hosted the “Dimensions of Pain” workshop in April 2023 with experts in pain research. The goal was to ide...
Octopuses (Probably) Don’t Have Nine Minds
This is the sixth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities condu...
Research summary: the intensity of valenced experience across species
Are there differences in the characteristic intensity ranges of valenced experience across species? This question is important b...
Next steps in invertebrate welfare, part 1: fundamental research
Whether invertebrates have a capacity for valenced experience is still uncertain. Given that uncertainty, we argue that supporti...
Opinion: estimating invertebrate sentience
In this post, four members of Rethink Priorities’ invertebrates team—Daniela R. Waldhorn, Marcus A. Davis, Peter Hurford, an...
Effective animal advocacy resources
This article contains a list of research organizations, newsletters, research libraries, personal blogs, conferences, podcasts, ...
What do unconscious processes in humans tell us about sentience?
Rethink Priorities has been compiling and analyzing relevant scientific evidence regarding invertebrate consciousness. As explai...