Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, ASU | Moral Psychologist Traversing Social-Cognition & Ethical Philosophy | Exploring Exceptional Altruism to Foster a Brighter Collective Future | He/Him
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- Our new @theconversation.com piece distills findings from our recent @pnas.org paper analyzing 38m U.S. obituaries (1998-2024). We examine which values families highlight when remembering loved ones and how those values shift over time and major events. theconversation.com/what-38-mill...
- Really good read: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Public displays of virtue like donating or speaking up can set norms, but they’re often met with skepticism (“virtue discounting”). Our new paper asks: do people expect their own public virtue to be judged differently than others’ similar actions? bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Across 4 preregistered studies (N=2,511), we find self-serving asymmetries. On average, people expect their own public acts of virtue to appear more principled, less reputation driven, and more trustworthy than people tend to rate identical public actions performed by others.
- 🪦 New in @pnas.org: we analyzed 38 million U.S. obituaries to ask what signals a life well lived: What values are people most remembered for? How do legacies shift with cultural events? How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- The most common values across obituaries were tradition and benevolence. Values like power and stimulation appeared less often.
- Across 6 European countries, people feel more responsible to protect future generations than to directly reduce climate change. Both forms of responsibility predict climate policy support. 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lcgHzzKDP... New paper w/ Zhaoquan Wang, @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, & many others.
- @seoyeonbae211.bsky.social and I spoke with @drjimdavies.bsky.social about our new preprint on altruistic motivation. Grateful for his thoughtful write-up in @nautil.us and the outstanding team behind this work (see below)!
- Excited to share @seoyeonbae211.bsky.social's first preprint—an ambitious global study of human motivation! Using data from 900,000+ people in 100+ countries, we find altruistic motives consistently outweigh egoistic ones across cultures. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found theconversation.com/we-asked-ove... @stysyropoulos.bsky.social
- Across 3 studies, we find that valuing future lives equally—regardless of their distance in time—predicts stronger interest in long-term oriented, high-impact careers. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @stysyropoulos.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social
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- Hey y’all! New paper with @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social & @stysyropoulos.bsky.social is out in BJSP! We test ways to expand moral concern to future generations, with spillover benefits for distant others today. #socialpsych #PsychSciSky #psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- New preprint! Do people who care about future generations actually do less to help others today? Across 3 studies—including both deceased and non-directed living organ donors—we find the opposite: Concern for the distant future predicts altruism now. 🌍🫀 👉 tinyurl.com/23r4cakh
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- Reposted by Kyle Fiore Law, PhD📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org
- New paper by @amormino.bsky.social and colleagues! They develop and validate a short form of the Social Discounting Task—a fast, reliable measure of how altruism declines with social distance. Perfect for tight surveys or large-scale studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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- Reposted by Kyle Fiore Law, PhDThe Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services. This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor). It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...
- 📢 New Preprint: Who cares about the future? We examine how age, ideology, SES, and other sociodemographic factors shape future-oriented thinking across 37,000+ participants worldwide. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/4et62tek @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social @stysyropoulos.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Kyle Fiore Law, PhDBut our work is far from done—science is still under attack. We’ve got ideas, but we want to hear from you. What’s worrying you most? What should we do next? How can we grow this movement together? Fill out this quick form to share your thoughts & stay connected: forms.gle/QAxH4wD4Y3sg...
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- 🚨 Arizonans: Science fuels jobs, innovation, & huge returns—every $1 in federal research brings >$4 back to the economy! In 2023 alone, AZ’s biotech industry drove >$40B impact & >40K jobs. Contact your reps & stand up for science! Thanks @lanishiota.bsky.social for organizing! #StandUpForScience
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- Reposted by Kyle Fiore Law, PhDBreaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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- In another preprint, we (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found that Americans underestimate how many future generations others see as worthy of consideration in policy and collective decisions, a form of pluralistic ignorance that may hinder long-term action.
- 🚨Preprint #2 for today!🚨 We find Americans care about future generations more than we think—but underestimate this shared concern. This misperception could weaken intergenerational collective action. Link: shorturl.at/y5M95
- We (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Gordon Kraft-Todd, @nathanliang.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found striking self-serving asymmetries in how people judge others’ public virtue and how they expect their own to be judged. Check it out below!
- 🚨New preprint!🚨 Why do people keep signaling virtue in public despite the social costs? We think our public virtue looks principled—but others’ looks like reputation management. Self-serving bias strikes again! Link: shorturl.at/2Sfeh
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- Big thanks to @spspnews.bsky.social and everyone who attended our symposium on barriers and pathways to altruistic equality! We appreciate the engaging discussion and insights. Special thanks to Stephanie Preston for providing stellar moderation—your expertise and guidance was outstanding!
- Check out our new preprint where we revisit ideological differences in the moral circle.
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- Join us Saturday afternoon for a #SPSP2025 symposium on the real & perceived boundaries of altruistic equality—and how moral learning can help transcend them! Featuring talks by @amormino.bsky.social, @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, Falk Lieder, and me, with moderation by Stephanie Preston!
- Excited to share that I’ve joined the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action (IDEA) Lab in ASU’s College of Global Futures as a postdoctoral researcher! @stysyropoulos.bsky.social and I will be advancing research on prosocial behavior & sustainable decision-making across generations! 🌵🌎🌍🌏🚀
- Excited to share our new paper in PSPB! @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, Gordon Kraft-Todd, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social and I validate a method for assessing impartial intergenerational beneficence––high levels of concern for ALL future generations. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Christmas, Hanukkah, and an editorial I wrote with @briandavidearp.bsky.social and @stysyropoulos.bsky.social on the multigenerational bioethics of artificial intelligence coincided this year. Happy holidays! jme.bmj.com/content/50/1...
- How does (un)certainty shape concern for the welfare of future generations? New article in PSPB with @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, Brendan Bo O’Connor and Liane Young! #psychscisky #sustainability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New paper with @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & Griffin Colaizzi: Intergenerational psychology offers powerful tools to tackle climate change, inspiring action across historically reluctant groups through future-focused interventions. #climateaction 🌍 Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
