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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Social Psychology | University of Utah | Moral Psychologist Traversing Social-Cognition & Moral Philosophy | Exploring Exceptional Altruism to Foster a Brighter Collective Future | He/Him kyleflaw.com
Future generations hold the lowest moral standing, even below present-day marginalized human and nonhuman outgroups by Christina Jinhee Capozzoli, @kyleflaw.com & @stysyropoulos.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1368...
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The Penn State Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab, Spring 2026 bloom 🌸. Conference guest @kyleflaw.com dropped in a cameo. Cheers to @amormino.bsky.social @jdweng.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social @jokretz.bsky.social, Izzy Griffith, and our many RAs who make this a cohesive scientific collaborative
Paige, I saw this in time to squeeze it into tonight's newsletter! Thank you - buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Year 2, Week 14
Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2026 - birth days
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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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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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That's not even counting additional talks by @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social @kyleflaw.com, Chuck Huff, Linda Trevino, Mary Beth Oliver, Simone Tang, Desiree Lim. It's going to be in person, also live-streamed on Zoom -- register at QR code or visit the event page: events.la.psu.edu/event/moral-....
Moral Fragmentations and Boundaries | Liberal Arts Events
This event through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making will bring together several scholars in the social sciences and humanities to talk about different disciplinary approaches to the study of "f...
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Interested in the moral psychology of intergenerational concern? Join us this Thursday for an online seminar this with @kyleflaw.com
Pablo Magaña@pmagana94.bsky.social · 5mo agophilevents.org/event/show/1... Next Thursday, March 26 at 5pm CET, Kyle Fiore Law (Utah) will talk about the moral psychology of intergenerational concern and 7th generation stewardship at the Moral Minds and Ethical Futures seminar series co-organized by @hugoviciana.bsky.social and me. Join us!!
📰 New Research: The Politics of Well-Being during Democratic Backsliding @djwu.bsky.social ky.social, @kyleflaw.com, @stysyropoulos.bsky.social y.social, and @sylviapperry.bsky.social show striking partisan differences in well-being during Trump’s second term. advances.in/psychology/1...
The politics of well-being during democratic backsliding: How partisan affiliation and support for government actions relate to happiness and life satisfaction
Do politics shape happiness? Evidence from 5-week tracking links policy support to well-being amid democratic backsliding in the U.S.
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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...
What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a ‘life well lived’
Obituaries reveal shifting cultural values across time and place. Here’s a glimpse into how the moral vocabulary has evolved over several decades.
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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/...
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Public acts of virtue can promote prosocial norms yet are often met with moral scepticism – a phenomenon known as virtue discounting. What psychological processes might underlie people's propensity t....
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🪦 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/...
An exploration of basic human values in 38 million obituaries over 30 years | PNAS
How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed 38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...
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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)!
@drjimdavies.bsky.social · last yr.In @nautil.us @drjimdavies.bsky.social reports on a huge study: People are motivated more by helping others than self-oriented motivations like reputation. Implications for how we try to encourage goodness .https://nautil.us/people-really-want-to-be-good-1227879/ @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social
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
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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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
Asking participants to roleplay as a leader of a committee protecting future generations & having them partake in a philosophical thought exercise emphasizing reduction of intergenerational harm increased moral concern felt towards future generations. @kyleflaw.com doi.org/10.1111/bjso...
PsyArXiv Preprints | Mapping the Moral Architecture of Effective and Extraordinary Altruism
Mapping the Moral Architecture of Effective and Extraordinary Altruism
While global challenges demand both impartiality and effectiveness, people often prioritize those nearby and overlook the impact of their prosocial actions. Here, we examined what moral values…
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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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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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🚨 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!
I've added a list at the bottom of the post linking to some places you could donate to help programs affected by the foreign aid cuts. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/i/161097332/...
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
At the national and individual level, increased poverty was related to lower intergenerational concern and less support for farsighted policies @kyleflaw.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
New paper w Georgetown’s Abigail Marsh & Wharton’s Annie Wilson. We develop & validate a short form of the Social Discounting Task—a behavioral measure of generosity that reliably tracks w other forms of altruism. Perfect for tight surveys or large-scale studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
📢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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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.
📣 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
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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....
