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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Sep 11

Huge thanks to co-authors Drs. Abigail Marsh, Bryan Jones, and @kendraseaman.bsky.social for your helpful mentorship and continued belief in this project!

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Sep 11

This paper grew out of my undergrad seminar: students collaborated on the replication project (Study2) & all earned co-authorship—it was a rare opportunity for undergrads to engage in journal-quality empirical work in the classroom & it’s a win for open science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social discounting and anti-/pro-sociality: A meta-analysis and (short-form) replication

Early research in behavioral sciences emphasized situational and contextual factors as key drivers of prosocial behavior, with individual differences …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Sep 11

This paper grew out of my undergrad seminar: students collaborated on the replication project (Study 2) & all earned co-authorship—it was a rare opportunity for undergrads to engage in journal-quality empirical work in the classroom & it’s a win for open science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social discounting and anti-/pro-sociality: A meta-analysis and (short-form) replication

Early research in behavioral sciences emphasized situational and contextual factors as key drivers of prosocial behavior, with individual differences …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center @prcpennstate.bsky.social · Aug 25

We are excited to welcome @amormino.bsky.social to the Prevention Research Center as a postdoctoral scholar in our Prevention and Methodology Training program! Her PAMT mentors will be @dcameron.bsky.social and Joel Segel. For more about PAMT for pre- and postdoctoral scholars, visit pamt.psu.edu.

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's been great to welcome @amormino.bsky.social here to Penn State, she's already brought wonderful energy to the EMP Lab, the social psych area, and to @rockethics.bsky.social. Looking forward to her working with us as part of our team!

@prcpennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social

Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center @prcpennstate.bsky.social · Aug 25

We are excited to welcome @amormino.bsky.social to the Prevention Research Center as a postdoctoral scholar in our Prevention and Methodology Training program! Her PAMT mentors will be @dcameron.bsky.social and Joel Segel. For more about PAMT for pre- and postdoctoral scholars, visit pamt.psu.edu.

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Aug 18

A snapshot of our last summer meeting of the EMP Lab. A Happy Valley welcome to new members, graduate student
@jokretz.bsky.social & post-doc @amormino.bsky.social, & farewell to alum @rachelbuterbaugh.bsky.social, who's off to grad school. With @jdweng.bsky.social @farvk.bsky.social, a great team!

Picture of members of the Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab

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Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center @prcpennstate.bsky.social · Jun 30

Welcome, Paige! 💙

Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Jun 30

Excited to announce that @amormino.bsky.social has joined the EMP Lab as a post-doctoral fellow through @prcpennstate.bsky.social Prevention and Methodology Training Program! Excited to work with her on prosociality, moral judgments, & prevention science. Check out her work below, cheers to Paige!

Paige Amormino

Hi, I'm Paige Amormino. I am currently in the fifth and final year of my Psychology Ph.D. program working with Dr. Abigail Marsh in the Laboratory on Social...

www.paigeamormino.com

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Jun 30

Excited to announce that @amormino.bsky.social has joined the EMP Lab as a post-doctoral fellow through @prcpennstate.bsky.social Prevention and Methodology Training Program! Excited to work with her on prosociality, moral judgments, & prevention science. Check out her work below, cheers to Paige!

Paige Amormino

Hi, I'm Paige Amormino. I am currently in the fifth and final year of my Psychology Ph.D. program working with Dr. Abigail Marsh in the Laboratory on Social...

www.paigeamormino.com

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Jun 3

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.

theconversation.com

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Jun 3

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...

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Josh Rottman @joshrottman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Inspired by research from @mattiwilks.bsky.social @amormino.bsky.social @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social @eranhalperin75.bsky.social and others: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...

The Pope Intuitively Understood Aspects of Moral Psychology

J.D. Vance has promoted a parochial view of moral obligations. Pope Francis provided a corrective that also receives support from psychological science.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hoping that the Social Discounting Task - Short Form (SDT-SF) Resource Page on osf will be an accessible implementation & analysis guide for all levels of researchers, from professors to undergrads.

osf.io/nsv3k/files/...

ggplot graph depicting social discounting curves for the short form and classic social discounting tasks

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Apr 2

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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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Mar 28

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....

Figure 2: A ggplot-generated graph depicting social discounting’s hyperbolic decline using behavioral data from the classic Social Discounting Task (slightly higher blue trend line) and the short form Social Discounting Task (slightly lower red line). Proportion of $ willing to forgo (y-axis) decreases as social distance (x-axis) increases.

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Mar 28

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....

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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · Mar 11

New Preprint: Social Discounting reliably predicts prosociality in meta-analysis & replication. Increased relational mobility (but not Ind-Col) predicts generosity toward distant others. All undergrads from our replication course are co-authors:

tinyurl.com/4acvnbrb
@kendraseaman.bsky.social

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 22

Check out our new preprint where we revisit ideological differences in the moral circle.

Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · Feb 22

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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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 23

Big thanks to @spspnews.bsky.social and everyone who attended our symposium on barriers and pathways to altruistic equality! We appreciate the engaging discussion and insights. Special thanks to Stephanie Preston for providing stellar moderation—your expertise and guidance was outstanding!

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 25

We (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Gordon Kraft-Todd, @nathanliang.bsky.social, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found striking self-serving asymmetries in how people judge others’ public virtue and how they expect their own to be judged. Check it out below!

Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨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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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 25

In another preprint, we (@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social) found that Americans underestimate how many future generations others see as worthy of consideration in policy and collective decisions, a form of pluralistic ignorance that may hinder long-term action.

Stylianos Syropoulos @stysyropoulos.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨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 · Feb 26

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 · Mar 10

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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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 23

Massive thanks are also in order for Bren O’Connor, @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social and Abigail Marsh as well as for the John Templeton Foundation!

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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD @kyleflaw.com · Feb 19

Join us Saturday afternoon for a #SPSP2025 symposium on the real & perceived boundaries of altruistic equality—and how moral learning can help transcend them! Featuring talks by @amormino.bsky.social, @stysyropoulos.bsky.social, Falk Lieder, and me, with moderation by Stephanie Preston!

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Jan 7

Here's another short panel, between @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social @kyleflaw.bsky.social and Simone Tang, complementing one another after their talks on groups and morality. From the MPRG/Consortium conference

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@ssripennstate.bsky.social @prcpennstate.bsky.social

Moral Psychology Research Group 2024: Panel 2

Panel 2 Hosted by Daryl Cameron Sponsored by: Penn State College of the Liberal Arts Penn State Rock Ethics Institute Penn State Social Science Research Institute The McCourtney Institute for Democracy Penn State Department of Philosophy Penn State Department of Psychology Penn State University Libraries

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