Allot — a study of moral judgments in humanitarian aid allocation

Allot is an independent, non-commercial research project studying how people across cultures make moral judgments when humanitarian resources are scarce. A session runs about 40 minutes and produces an anonymous dataset published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0).

For researchers, journalists, and partner organisations, the detailed research brief is at /about-research. The full research specification is held privately during the data-collection phase to preserve scientific validity (see the pre-registration hash at /about-research); it will be released in full alongside the first dataset publication. The privacy notice is at /privacy.

Topics covered: humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA); moral psychology under scarcity; cross-cultural variation in moral intuition; in-group bias (Tajfel social identity theory); tail-aware preference elicitation; ethical foundations — Rawls, Parfit, Sen, Nussbaum, Scanlon, Daniels, Emanuel et al. 2020 NEJM; behavioural-economics evidence — Haushofer & Shapiro, Evans & Popova, Blattman, Banerjee, Alatas, Buller. Source code Apache-2.0; content and dataset CC-BY-4.0. LLM-agent guide: /llms.txt.