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Saving SBE Starts Before the Bill Is Written

I wrote this article to explain in plain English what is happening with the proposed 2027 NSF budget & why so many social psychologists are alarmed. THE GOOD NEWS: Congress has not finalized this yet. We have time to change Republican politicians’ minds. www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving...

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The FY2027 NSF budget request is alarming, but Congress has not made it law. That means there is still time for researchers and universities to act.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is a really thoughtful piece—clear-eyed about the scale of the damage higher education is facing, but still making room for future action. It tacitly defines hope as continued engagement and meaningful action. Thanks for including my resource page in this! What a cool newsletter!

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Paige, I saw this in time to squeeze it into tonight's newsletter! Thank you - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 14

Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2026 - birth days

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. In FY 2027, NSF will close-out this directorate. Continuing grants that align with Administration priorities, such as in behavioral and cognitive science, and all impacted employees will be transferred to other parts of the agency. The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics will operate independently of the directorates and continue to be supported through the R&RA appropriation.

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Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

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Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

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Thanks for sharing! It’s something I’ve felt personally as a postdoc. Psychological orgs who have gov affairs representatives should be talking to members of congress to advocate for SBE to get a distinct appropriation in FY 27. Would love to hear from them to assess our signs of hope.

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Home - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making

We've had many multi-disciplinary moral psychology events through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making (moralconsortium.psu.edu), but this is the first primarily devoted to methodology. It spotlights the voices of early career researchers, driving the future of the field. Please attend and share!

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We'll hear in the afternoon from @amormino.bsky.social on prosocial discounting tasks, @vladchituc.bsky.social on moral psych & Weber-Fechner law, @farvk.bsky.social on scale anchor neglect in study inference, and close with Becca Ruger discussing the role for mundane stimuli in moral psychology.

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We'll hear from Jillian Lee Meyer on "Mapping the Moral Domain: A Gamified, Interdisciplinary Measure of Moral Decision-Making", & Ben Hardin will talk about round-robin approaches in moral psychology @rockethics.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social @socphilpsych.bsky.social

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Some highlights: @byrdnick.com will talk on "Psychometrics in the Age of AI: Two Problems, Two Solutions, and Two Resources", @ralucaszekely.bsky.social will talk on "Measurement Invariance and Generalizability in Moral Psychology" @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @ssripennstate.bsky.social

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Moral Measures Workshop - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making

I'm pleased to drop the webpage for tomorrow's Consortium on Moral Decision-Making moral measures workshop. Click to see the schedule for the afternoon, including talk titles, abstracts, bios, & more. Monday March 23 from 1:30-5:00p.m. EDT, hybrid #psychscisky moralconsortium.psu.edu/events/moral...

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This event will bring together researchers to give short talks on methodology and measurement questions in the study of moral and ethical decision-making. Although many of our conference events have f...

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

And looking forward to hearing from @amormino.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social @vladchituc.bsky.social @byrdnick.com @ralucaszekely.bsky.social and Becca, Jillian, and Ben. It will be an informal but long form dive into measurement and methods in interdisciplinary moral psych #socialpsych #psychscisky

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Join us Friday morning for a #SPSP2026 symposium on how psychological distance makes us “discount” our care/concern for more distant others. Feat. talks by Naomi Nero, Heather Doherty, Jin Capozzoli, and me, with moderation by the father of social discounting: Dr. Bryan Jones @spspnews.bsky.social

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Check out Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship’s coverage of my undergrad replication course: cndls.georgetown.edu/projects/con... Huge thanks to @spspnews.bsky.social @cloudresearch.bsky.social @gupsychology.bsky.social & CNDLS for supporting this work.

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Contributing to Science Through Measuring Kindness - CNDLS

Georgetown's center for teaching innovation, research, and excellence.

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Need Over Nearness: Impartial Beneficence Lowers the Threshold for Helping Strangers Over Close Others papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Sometimes you have one of those days when you feel, more than usual, how lucky it is to have a great team. As I walk into the weekend, grateful for the team of @amormino.bsky.social @jokretz.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social @jdweng.bsky.social. It was a day when the holism of the EMP Lab stood out.

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Also, yes, empathy matters. Normalizing empathy, or cruelty, through policy may shape when and for whom citizens feel appropriate empathizing. Empathic choices lace together in support or separation, and don't exist in a vacuum. Empathy matters, science matters, and communicating that is vital. 5/n

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The article is open-access at the link, please share! The journal is associated with @fabbs.org and connects science to society and policymakers. I'm excited to see many of the other excellent social psychology articles that are coming out in this special issue, as well! 3/n

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As a matter of motivated choice, we suggest our empathic decisions are interwoven with one another's. Ultimately we suggest this is a matter of applied moral psychology, considering how people navigate moral disagreements and the need to care for one other (or not) within a complex social world 2/n

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Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026

Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n

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Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

First paper with post doc @amormino.bsky.social! Policy as applied moral psychology. We discussed how motivated empathy & moral pluralism matter, for the public-facing FABBS Policy Insights journal. An opportunity to cross disciplines with health policy scholar Joel Segel @prcpennstate.bsky.social

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Empathy & moral judgment are motivated by many different values. To understand the role that empathy & morality can play in policy, we consider how constituents & policymakers balance costs & benefits of moral emotions & regulate themselves & each other. osf.io/preprints/ps... @dcameron.bsky.social

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 17/08/2025

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.

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 27/08/2025

The (stellar) team behind this work: David Markowitz, Thomas Mazzuchi, @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, me, and @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 27/08/2025

Taken together, obituaries show how societies remember the dead by encoding values, responding to cultural upheavals, and reinforcing scripts of age and gender. They are cultural time capsules that reveal what we believe makes a life well lived.

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 03/10/2025

Practically, if people expect their own virtue to be judged more favorably, this could (potentially) make them more willing to act publicly, which may support norm setting. Still, the consistent discounting of public relative to private virtue suggests those acts may carry a credibility cost.