Stylianos Syropoulos

They are the same.

on October 23, 2025, at 11:59 PM

I spoke with ASU assistant professor @stysyropoulos.bsky.social‬ about this.

@lianeleeyoung.bsky.social @stysyropoulos.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @drcharlie.bsky.social @realmoralitylab.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.

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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🌍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.

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Thanks Mark. My colleagues and I emailed the editor expressing this as well.

And perhaps the icing on the cake, blatantly failing to even acknowledge that future thinking and the study of future generations is a real topic, disregarding hundreds of papers on this issue across fields:

" "Concern about Future People" Is Not Real" "

Here is another one, where this R criticizes another paper of mine in PSPB: "Perhaps the reviewers of the paper appearing in PSPB (and the editor that accepted it for publication) were not at all curious about construct validity. Those reviewers, however, are elsewhere.

Another gem: "We may as well discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or how elves, leprechauns, and pixies should be treated if we assume that they exist. If there are ANY real world implications of ANY of this, the authors are obligated to provide these."

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."

🚨 “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.

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📣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

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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 ...

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....

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 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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🌍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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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!

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...

🚨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

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

📢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...

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.

📢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!

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!

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...

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

📢 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

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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...

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