### Academic publications - [Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem: A meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.108233) | [Replication Package](https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.6020578.v2) with Benny Smith and Maya Mathur (2025). *Appetite* 216. - [Effects of adding plant-based menu options on meat selection frequency: A randomized controlled experiment](https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/z6rn2_v2) | [Replication Package](https://github.com/hsflabstanford/tacos-rct) with Jessica Hope, Jacob Peacock, and Maya Mathur. Accepted at *Food Quality and Preference*. - [Preventing sexual violence: A behavioral problem without a behaviorally informed solution](https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006231221978) | [Replication Package](https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.5471833.v2) with Roni Porat, Ana Gantman, John-Henry Pezzuto, and Elizabeth Levy Paluck (2024). *Psychological Science in the Public Interest* 25(1): 4–29. - [Five Observations on Five Years of Contact Hypothesis Research](https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8mcb5) (2024). *SocArXiv* preprint. - [Analysis of open data and computational reproducibility in registered reports in psychology](https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920918872) | [Replication Package](https://github.com/Lakens/reproducing_registered_reports) with Pepijn Obels, Daniël Lakens, Nicholas A. Coles, and Jaroslav Gottfried (2020). *Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science* 3(2): 229–237. - [Computational reproducibility via containers in psychology](https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/892) with April Clyburne-Sherin and Xu Fei (2019). *Meta-Psychology* 3. - [The contact hypothesis re-evaluated](https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2018.25) | [Replication Package](https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.4024382.v7) with Elizabeth Levy Paluck and Donald P. Green (2018). *Behavioural Public Policy* 3(2): 129–158. ### Podcasts and media - [A Rigorous Look at Behavioral Nudges in Plant-Based Food Systems Change: What Works, What's Next.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hozYKqvDZg) Better Food Foundation webinar, hosted by Jennifer Channin, March 13, 2026. - [Seth Green on why reducing meat consumption is hard and what actually works.](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817/episodes/18730635) *How I Learned to Love Shrimp*, hosted by James Özden, February 26, 2026. - [2025 Highlights: AI, MAHA, Vegan Nudges, Cultivated Meat: Science of Activism.](https://rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2473537/) *The Vegan Report*, with Rayane Laddi and Jacob Peacock, January 21, 2026. - [The Vegan Persuasion Problem: What Actually Works to End Animal Consumption?](https://www.ourhenhouse.org/ep873/) *Our Hen House*, Ep. 873, with Benny Smith, November 21, 2025. - [Nothing Seems to Work: Science of Activism.](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZzIHoUYWrJVM9EMRbayy5) *The Vegan Report*, with Rayane Laddi and Jacob Peacock, October 29, 2025. ### Presentations and talks I have presented my work at my [lab's seminar series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2dZmUCVQU) at Stanford (June 2024), RECAP's monthly calls (September 2024, December 2025), the [Reducetarian Summit](https://www.reducetarian.org/summit-2025) in Atlanta (October 2025), the [NEST online seminar](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leonie-carolin-peiffer_nest-activity-7429049450410450944-gT4c) (March 2026), and the [Food 4 Thought Innovations Festival](https://www.food4thoughtinnovations.org/stanford-festival) at Stanford (April 2026). ### EA Forum posts Favorite posts: [adding a plant-based option (or two) doesn't change behavior](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sXQrBxHuBxyxdkMp3/research-report-adding-a-plant-based-option-or-two-doesn-t), [meaningfully reducing meat consumption is an unsolved problem](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/i5wnzz4uAgeF3ZRc5/meaningfully-reducing-meat-consumption-is-an-unsolved), [sexual violence prevention programs change ideas, not behaviors](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uWh8N5DtbSLsuuTzL/sexual-violence-prevention-programs-change-ideas-not), and [my circuitous, undirected path to an EA job](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ekbCzxh2SfA64GrxD/my-circuitous-undirected-path-to-an-ea-job) (full list on my [EA Forum profile](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/seth-ariel-green?from=post_header)). ### Content marketing, documentation, & market research #### Animal welfare and food systems - [Regression to the Meat](https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com) is my newsletter about research to reduce meat consumption. My personal favorites: [Scaled up, I expect defaults to reduce meat consumption by ~1-2 pp](https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com/p/scaled-up-i-expect-defaults-to-reduce), [Burdens of proof for dynamic norms interventions](https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com/p/burdens-of-proof-for-dynamic-norms), and [Eating vegetarian is not like voting](https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com/p/eating-vegetarian-is-not-like-voting). #### Everything else - For [Glo Foundation](https://www.glodollar.org/), I published [thought](https://web.archive.org/web/20240221111740/https://www.glodollar.org/articles/glo-zero-poverty-and-the-sdgs) [leadership](https://web.archive.org/web/20240221120127/https://www.glodollar.org/articles/why-glo-foundation-donates-to-givedirectly), [product](https://www.glodollar.org/articles/treasuries) [explanations](https://web.archive.org/web/20240221120343/https://www.glodollar.org/articles/givedirectly), [quarterly](https://web.archive.org/web/20231003014334/https://www.glodollar.org/articles/glo-q1-2023-update) [updates](https://www.glodollar.org/articles/glo-q2-2023-update), information for [job](https://www.glodollar.org/articles/how-we-work-at-glo) [applicants](https://www.glodollar.org/articles/how-to-make-your-job-application-to-glo-stand-out), [general purpose marketing](https://web.archive.org/web/20231129055038/https://www.glodollar.org/articles/embedded-philanthropy), social media [threads](https://twitter.com/glodollar/status/1710360692812021898) [and](https://twitter.com/glodollar/status/1580906280599724032) [stand](https://twitter.com/glodollar/status/1711762918214148500) [alone](https://twitter.com/glodollar/status/1706318040592191520) [posts](https://twitter.com/glodollar/status/1651247136179122178), and content for [external](https://discuss.octant.app/t/glo-dollar-a-fiat-backed-stablecoin-embedded-with-philanthropy/51) [forums](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EAiwxZN4Jiyup8d9G/glo-dollar-an-ethical-stablecoin-model-potential-impact-and). I also [recorded](https://open.spotify.com/episode/67sgAVvKCVnot4yrvs40az?si=16344f2dc1a948a9&nd=1) [some](https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-127-glo-and-the-life-you-can-save-how-blockchain-can-help-alleviate-extreme-poverty) [podcasts](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/watotocoding/episodes/Glo-Dollar---A-solution-to-extreme-poverty-e21m51q). - For [Code Ocean](https://codeocean.com/), I co-authored the [white paper](https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/892), [wrote](https://medium.com/codeocean/two-welcome-innovations-in-liu-and-salganik-2019-successes-and-struggles-with-computational-b4ef1a4311f2) [for](https://medium.com/codeocean/five-reproducibility-lessons-from-a-year-of-reviewing-compute-capsules-de71729ebd8a) [the](https://medium.com/codeocean/nature-journals-pilot-with-code-ocean-a-developer-advocate-s-perspective-d1f9f35f896e) [company](https://medium.com/codeocean/multiple-languages-in-a-single-compute-capsule-e71719e448ab) [blog](https://medium.com/codeocean/stata-on-code-ocean-the-case-of-meta-ado-ac9c32be338a), guest wrote for a [partner's blog](https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2018/12/21/public-and-private-benefits-to-practicing-open-science/), occasionally [social](https://twitter.com/CodeOceanHQ/status/989193597294665729) [media](https://twitter.com/CodeOceanHQ/status/1024382224844632064) content, and about half of Code Ocean's [help pages](https://help.codeocean.com/en/). I also presented Code Ocean at conferences, e.g. [JupyterDay in the Triangle](https://twitter.com/GinnyGhezzo/status/1062409577101172736/photo/1) at UNC in 2018. (One person [said I was good](https://twitter.com/KLA2010/status/912389868730372097)!) - I've contributed to the Ethereum Foundation's developer docs: [6619](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/6619), [6651](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/6651), [7759](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/7759), [10741](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/10741), [10756](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/10756), [12390](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/12390), and [12938](https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/pull/12938). ### Software - An [R package](https://github.com/setgree/PaluckMetaSOP) on the [Paluck Lab's](https://psych.princeton.edu/people/elizabeth-levy-paluck) approach to meta-analysis. ### Media mentions My work has been covered in [Vox](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417717/meat-reduction-vegetarian-research), [Green Queen Media](https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/plant-based-vegan-menu-options-choice-architecture-meat-chipotle/), [Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/202603/is-it-harder-to-cut-back-on-meat-than-to-quit-smoking), the [PHAIR blog](https://phairsociety.org/2026/04/29/reducing-meat-consumption-an-unsolved-problem/), and [Faunalytics](https://faunalytics.org/convincing-people-to-stop-eating-meat-isnt-easy/). (The [contact meta](https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2018.25) has been mentioned [many times](https://cambridge.altmetric.com/details/70248650/news).) ### Politics, cultural, and personal - [Traveling North](https://journeys.appalachiantrail.org/issue/spring-summer-2022/traveling-north/), *Appalachian Trail Journeys*, spring/summer 2022. - The stuff on my [regular blog](https://setharielgreen.com/blog/), + a few things for [Grand Blog Tarkin](https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/) on [political](https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/the-walking-dead-and-the-politics-of-apocalypse-fiction/) and [strategic](https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/enders-shadow-and-offense-defense-theory) thinking in fantasy and sci-fi. - I prepared research briefs for Evidence in Governance and Politics ([6](https://egap.org/resource/brief-06-voter-benchmarks-in-developing-countries/), [12](https://egap.org/resource/brief-12-attitudes-towards-immigrants-among-boston-area-commuters/), [15](https://egap.org/resource/brief-15-is-it-the-cash-or-condition-in-malawi/), [20](https://egap.org/resource/brief-20-is-vote-buying-effective/), [23](https://egap.org/resource/brief-23-discrimination-in-everyday-behavior/), [34](https://egap.org/resource/brief-34-violent-conflict-and-behavior-in-burundi/), [36](https://egap.org/resource/brief-36-face-to-face-interviews-cognitive-skill-and-non-response/), [37](https://egap.org/resource/brief-37-voter-and-candidate-response-to-political-debates/), [38](https://egap.org/resource/brief-38-diminishing-the-effectiveness-of-vote-buying-through-voter-education/), and [39](https://egap.org/resource/brief-39-attitudes-towards-risk-and-illegal-behavior/)). - I also researched effective anti-corruption NGOs for [Founders Pledge](https://www.founderspledge.com/).