One of the things I've been excited about with the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is our international scope, in terms of the speakers and audience we draw in. If you're at @easp2026.bsky.social and would like to learn more, feel free to reach out (and the website is moralconsortium.psu.edu).

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Welcome to the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making A collaborative hub dedicated to unraveling the intricate threads of ethical choices. As a multidisciplinary alliance of scholars, thinkers, and prac...

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The Empathy & Moral Psychology Lab will be at APS in Barcelona! Unfortunately, I can't be there in person. Check out @amormino.bsky.social's symposium & talk, @jokretz.bsky.social's first talk, two talks by @jdweng.bsky.social (including one on my behalf), @farvk.bsky.social's poster. A great team!

Interested in joining the 2027 SPSP Morality Preconference Committee? You would serve for 2 years, including this upcoming year with @diegoreinero.bsky.social and me. Applications via this link: forms.gle/NvMc9KuzsRxL... Due 5/15

Morality Preconference Organizer Interest Form

We're recruiting organizers for the Morality Preconference! Please fill out this form if you're interested in serving in this role. We are looking for folks interested in serving on the committee fo...

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The Presidential Budget Request for FY2027 calls for dismantling NSF's Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate — and reports suggest it could start this year. @cossa.bsky.social is hosting a Town Hall on April 14 and SPSP members are encouraged to attend! RSVP: https://ow.ly/sFYH50YH3Fl

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

We, as individuals, can do something. See below to help save SBE funding. #science #skyence 🧠 🧪

Paige Amormino@amormino.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

The proposed federal budget for 2027 cuts NSF funding by 55%, including dissolving the division for social, behavioral, & economic sciences. Now is an essential time to speak up for science funding!

Paige Amormino@amormino.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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This post is part of a longer thread and we really wanted to make sure it got attention from our community. Many thank you's to Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social) for putting together this action guide to help scholars advocate for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We encourage SPSP members to check out an excellent guide prepared by Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social), which offers practical action steps that members can take to speak up for personality and social psychology research: ow.ly/zYBl50YEuVM

The latest U.S. Presidential Budget Request calls for the elimination of the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences - which plays a massive role in supporting personality and social psychology research.

Help save SBE at NSF (and 3 cheers for Paige 💙). Friends in the district Unis ++ have extra influence b/c their reps are on Appropriations. Click! Write! NYC schools (NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell ..) Brown Vanderbilt U Delaware U Maryland UOregon & OSU Texas A&M U Rochester U Alabama +++

Paige Amormino@amormino.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

It is idiotic to make decisions based on a 'budget request'. As Timothy Snyder wrote, "Do not obey in advance."

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...

Saving SBE Starts Before the Bill Is Written

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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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!

Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

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

Year 2, Week 14

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

Moral Measures Workshop - Consortium on Moral Decision-Making

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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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

For everyone going to #spsp2026 @spspnews.bsky.social in Chicago, come say hi to us! All of us in the EMP Lab will be there including @amormino.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social @jdweng.bsky.social @jokretz.bsky.social. #socialpsych #psychscisky @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social

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

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.

Contributing to Science Through Measuring Kindness - CNDLS

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

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

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.

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