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NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State in Dr. Daryl Cameron’s Empathy & Morality Lab
pinned post!
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
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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 …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500409X
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Wintry walk with the EMP Lab
@amormino.bsky.social
@jokretz.bsky.social
@farvk.bsky.social
@jdweng.bsky.social
@psuliberalarts.bsky.social
@prcpennstate.bsky.social
@ssripennstate.bsky.social
@rockethics.bsky.social
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Paige Amormino
Daryl Cameron
21 days ago
First paper with post doc
@amormino.bsky.social
! Policy as applied moral psychology. We discussed how motivated empathy & moral pluralism matter, for the public-facing FABBS Policy Insights journal. An opportunity to cross disciplines with health policy scholar Joel Segel
@prcpennstate.bsky.social
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Empathy & moral judgment are motivated by many different values. To understand the role that empathy & morality can play in policy, we consider how constituents & policymakers balance costs & benefits of moral emotions & regulate themselves & each other.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@dcameron.bsky.social
21 days ago
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
4 months ago
The team:
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social
, Bren O’Connor,
@amormino.bsky.social
,
@drcharlie.bsky.social
, Brock Bastian, Abigail Marsh &
@lianeleeyoung.bsky.social
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
4 months ago
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.
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
4 months ago
The (stellar) team behind this work: David Markowitz, Thomas Mazzuchi,
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social
, me, and
@lianeleeyoung.bsky.social
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
4 months ago
Taken together, obituaries show how societies remember the dead by encoding values, responding to cultural upheavals, and reinforcing scripts of age and gender. They are cultural time capsules that reveal what we believe makes a life well lived.
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
2 months ago
With
@jowylie.bsky.social
, Gordon Kraft-Todd,
@nathanliang.bsky.social
,
@lianeleeyoung.bsky.social
, and
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social
!
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
2 months ago
Practically, if people expect their own virtue to be judged more favorably, this could (potentially) make them more willing to act publicly, which may support norm setting. Still, the consistent discounting of public relative to private virtue suggests those acts may carry a credibility cost.
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
2 months ago
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?
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
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....
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso.70014
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
4 months ago
🪦 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?
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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...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510318122
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Paige Amormino
Daryl Cameron
about 1 month ago
As a reminder, the Moral Psychology Research Group online 2025 fall meeting starts today at 4pm EST on Zoom. Open to all! Details below (and note that the Zoom link has been updated).
@amormino.bsky.social
from the EMP Lab will be talking tomorrow at 11am EST.
sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
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MPRG - Online Events
An Online Gathering for Moral Psychology -- Fall 2025* Friday, November 7th: 4:00pm to 7:00pm (EST) Saturday, November 8th: 11:00am to 3:15pm (EST)
https://sites.google.com/view/mprg/online-events?authuser=0
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Which kids with early ODD/CD symptoms will grow out of them, and which may struggle long-term? Our ML models predict risk 3 years later with >90% accuracy. The strongest protective factor? Prosocial behavior—helping, sharing, caring.
doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
Open Access report out now in JCPP
about 2 months ago
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Daryl Cameron
about 2 months ago
Check out the Moral Psychology Research Group online conference in November! EMP Lab and
@prcpennstate.bsky.social
post-doc
@amormino.bsky.social
will be talking about her work. A lot of great talks scheduled, a treat for folks who enjoy interdisciplinary work
sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...
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MPRG - Online Events
An Online Gathering for Moral Psychology -- Fall 2025* Friday, November 7th: 4:00pm to 7:00pm (EST) Saturday, November 8th: 11:00am to 3:15pm (EST)
https://sites.google.com/view/mprg/online-events?fbclid=Iwb21leANdAONjbGNrA10A22V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeiRn70CGTpSWKAFbRrWB2ZDERozaW7eSsh_NvgHtucW_rKUONhphOwmRyoFQ_aem_nFUXcUGWg_XvmdowietmEA
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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...
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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 …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500409X
3 months ago
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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...
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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 …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500409X
3 months ago
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Paige Amormino
Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
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Paige Amormino
Daryl Cameron
4 months ago
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!
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Paige Amormino
Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
5 months ago
Welcome, Paige! 💙
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Paige Amormino
Daryl Cameron
5 months ago
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!
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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...
https://www.paigeamormino.com
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
6 months ago
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.
https://theconversation.com/we-asked-over-8-700-people-in-6-countries-to-think-about-future-generations-in-decision-making-and-this-is-what-we-found-256767?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
6 months ago
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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Paige Amormino
Josh Rottman
8 months ago
Inspired by research from
@mattiwilks.bsky.social
@amormino.bsky.social
@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social
@eranhalperin75.bsky.social
and others:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mora...
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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.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-boundaries/202504/the-pope-intuitively-understood-aspects-of-moral-psychology
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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/...
8 months ago
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
8 months ago
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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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....
9 months ago
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
9 months ago
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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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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https://tinyurl.com/4acvnbrb
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
Check out our new preprint where we revisit ideological differences in the moral circle.
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
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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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
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!
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
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.
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Stylianos Syropoulos
10 months ago
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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https://tinyurl.com/46kcst28
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Stylianos Syropoulos
9 months ago
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
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
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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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
10 months ago
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
11 months ago
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
bit.ly/3PqPpgA
@ssripennstate.bsky.social
@prcpennstate.bsky.social
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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
https://bit.ly/3PqPpgA
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
11 months ago
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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Impartial altruism theoretically undermines prioritizing close relationships. Yet we found that impartial altruists—who donated a kidney & performed impartially in lab tasks—had close others who reported high relationship quality & showed high impartiality in tasks (vs controls).
12 months ago
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
about 1 year ago
Challenges like pandemics and climate change face the future of society. But present-oriented bias limits our moral concern for distant generations. Broadening our moral circles across time and space is therefore crucial for a better tomorrow — imagination may point the way.
tinyurl.com/bdhrfuru
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Moral Future-Thinking: Does the Moral Circle Stand the Test of Time? - Kyle Fiore Law, Stylianos Syropoulos, Matthew Coleman, Izzy Gainsburg, Brendan Bo O’Connor, 2024
Humanity’s long-term welfare may lie in the hands of those who are presently living, raising the question of whether people today hold the generations of tomorr...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672241284324
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Paige Amormino
Jordan Wylie
about 1 year ago
Blueksy! I will be recruiting a PhD student and a lab manager in the Fall of 2025. The lab will study rules and curiosity from a moral psychology lens—exploring how we judge rule-breakers, reason about rules, and what sparks our curiosity in the moral domain.
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Paige Amormino
Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
about 1 year ago
Interested in rules? Interested in rule breakers? Interested in why people break rules and why rule breakers are interesting? Well go figure this stuff out in Jordan’s cool new lab! 😀
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Kyle Fiore Law, PhD
about 1 year ago
Hi All! I created a starter pack of folks who study altruism and prosocial behavior, with a particular focus on those exploring how helping happens across boundaries, divides, and spans of distance. If you'd like to be added to the list, feel free to reply or DM me!
go.bsky.app/D8mSgTy
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