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Stylianos Syropoulos

@stysyropoulos.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the College of Global Futures, Arizona State University | morality, sustainability, and intergenerational decision-making www.stylianossyropoulos.com

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Ignacio Ventura @ignacioventuram.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I spoke with ASU assistant professor @stysyropoulos.bsky.social‬ about this.
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 03/06/2025
@lianeleeyoung.bsky.social @stysyropoulos.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @drcharlie.bsky.social @realmoralitylab.bsky.social
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 03/06/2025
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
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We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found
When people reflect on how their actions shape the future, they are more likely to support solutions to present-day issues like poverty and inequality.
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 29/05/2025
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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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🌍Just Announced: Join us on June 3 for the next installment of our APA Interdivisional Webinar Series on Climate Justice and Psychology! Featured speaker Amanda Carrico will discuss climate change, migration, and well-being. RSVP here: ow.ly/LeTm50VU7WR
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Venting about possibly the worst peer review I have received. This review was mostly an ad hominem attack, criticizing my work outside of the scope of this paper, and concluded with this sentence: "Please direct your considerable creativity in a direction likely to advance meaningful knowledge."
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides. @stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail. 🧵1/9
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
📣SPSP members Angelo Cusimano and @stysyropoulos.bsky.social recently joined 70+ social scientists on Capitol Hill, advocating for crucial research funding! Read their key takeaways from the experience and where to go from here. 📰: ow.ly/yr0i50VMXZg Photo by Liz Roll
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 24/04/2025
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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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
In three studies (N = 8775) including two pre-registered experiments and a pre-registered cross-national replication across five countries, we tested whether intergenerational appeals that emphasize ...
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨 New preprint! What drives truly selfless giving? Led by @kyleflaw.bsky.social! We studied effective altruists (EAs) and organ donors to strangers (ODs) comparing them to controls. EAs & ODs ⬆️ moral expansiveness EAs ⬆️utilitarianism Notably, loyalty isn’t always parochial. 👀 🔗 in comments!
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🌍Join the next webinar in our series on climate justice and psychology, part of a partnership with several other APA divisions! This event will focus on climate justice and American public opinion. 🗓️Date: April 18 ⏰Time: 1 PM US ET ✍️Register here: ow.ly/JWv650Vyb0b
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mark your calendars. Two weeks from today, Expanding Empathy returns through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. With a special hybrid event on political divisions & morality, with speakers from psych, philosophy, political science, sociology, communications, & anthropology. More next week!
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Gregg Sparkman @greggsparkman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨 90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122
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Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS
Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 02/04/2025
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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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📢New preprint!📢 How are we remembered after we're gone? In 38M obituaries (7 Billion words!) we find that: Men & older people were memorialized with more words Women were memorialized for care/love. This asymmetry intensified with age! Read more: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New preprint: shorturl.at/BZacg; with a team of 31 researchers! Low concern for infection + low political trust = less compliance with COVID-19 measures. Using data from 18 countries (N = 18k), we show how distrustful complacency undermines public health especially when leaders oppose science.
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢New preprint: shorturl.at/M77Bb We surveyed 1,798 psychology PhD students. Marginalized students and students experiencing financial strain report disparities in mental health, worse program satisfaction and poorer academic experiences. Funding & support are crucial to build a fairer academia!
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Diego Reinero, Ph.D. @diegoreinero.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Nearly 90% of US Christian religious leaders believe that humans are contributing to climate change. Yet most never talk about it with their congregation (and US Christians underestimate the prevalence of this belief among their leaders). But misperception corrections help!
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Now officially out in @pnas.org with @greggsparkman.bsky.social! Almost 90% of Christian religious leaders believe in anthropogenic climate change. American congregants underestimate this consensus. Communicating this has important consequences for norms and beliefs! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New Preprint! We find that close and distant future generations get less moral concern than even the most neglected human and non-human groups today. This is noted for boundless and zero-sum moral trade-offs. 🔗https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c9p8f_v1 #FutureGenerations#MoralPsychology#Psychology
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 19/03/2025
📢 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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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New Preprint! Do parents care more about climate change? This has been debated extensively in the literature. We find no direct evidence linking parenthood to sustainability, but we do find that its linked to legacy concerns, a key predictor of sustainable action. Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New Preprint! How do scientific journal endorsements of political candidates impact trust in science? We find declines in trust, especially among moderates & conservatives, supporting research on motivated reasoning. Link: shorturl.at/76W4G #psychology
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New preprint! When people have more resources, they allocate more to future generations—but not proportionally more. SES also predicts greater willingness to sacrifice for future welfare. Tackling inequality and poverty might be key for longterm concern! tinyurl.com/46kcst28
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨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
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨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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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New preprint! Do liberals prioritize distant others over close relationships? Our large-scale analyses (N=4201) find no tradeoff—liberals’ broader moral concern coexists with care for family & community. Implications for policy & moral psychology: (osf.io/preprints/ps...) #MoralPsychology #Ideology
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
PsyArXiv Preprints | Cultivating Multigenerational Moral Expansion
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Cultivating Multigenerational Moral Expansion
In three studies (N = 8,775) including two pre-registered experiments and a pre-registered cross-national replication across five countries, we tested whether intergenerational appeals that emphasize…
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Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I recently had the pleasure of talking about my work on personal legacy on the Climate Change & Happiness podcast. Their work is great check them out! Link for the episode below: climatechangeandhappiness.com/episodes/sea...
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Season 4, Episode 11: On Legacy with Stylianos Syropoulos — Climate Change and Happiness
Thomas and Panu Pihkala welcomed Stylianos Syropoulos, director of the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action (IDEA) Lab at Arizona State University to discuss his research on how people app...
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 13/01/2025
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! 🌵🌎🌍🌏🚀
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 07/01/2025
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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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Do you need some more philosophy-psychology goodness? Here's the second interdisciplinary roundtable from the MPRG/Consortium conference, with @evanwestra.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social @stysyropoulos.bsky.social and Taylor Davis talking about doing moral psych across fields. bit.ly/4fL3wIC
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Moral Psychology Research Group 2024: Group 2
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · 13/12/2024
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...
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Climate change is an intergenerational challenge that requires intergenerationally focused behavioral solutions
Anthropogenic climate change presents an intergenerational challenge, with its most severe impacts expected to affect future generations if current so…
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