New preprint w/ Maximilian Maier 🔍, Vanessa Cheung, Fiery Cushman, & Falk Lieder: Disentangling Model-Based and Model-Free Moral Learning doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… Excited to present this work at #CogSci2025!

It is easy to glance at the news and be captivated by whatever fresh travesty is happening in the world today. But the reality is that most of people’s moral lives play out in quieter, seemingly more mundane moments, such as those involving friends and family, at the grocery

We are recruiting committee members and conference chairs for Sustainability Psychology Pre-conference! If you are an SPSP member who is interested email me at: [email protected] #SPSP2026 #SP32026 #SustainabilityPsychology #Conference

Given everything happening to the students and postdocs everywhere right now... reminder we are still looking for a post-doc. A safe position in a stable, highly innovative environment in a safe, public health and public education loving country.

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/psya… Stylianos Syropoulos Paige Amormino Liane Young Ben Rogers

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-over-… via The Conversation U.S. Stylianos Syropoulos

"brief, low-cost psychological interventions can help individuals adopt a more expansive moral perspective to include future generations" ow.ly/vOol50W3E7U via The Conversation U.S.

Excited to share Seoyeon Bae’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/psya…

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

Back to X just to post new PNAS paper for Elon Musk: we find Community Notes flags 2.3x more Republicans than Democrats for misleading posts! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

There’s an ongoing effort by researchers from Arizona State University to understand people who choose to voluntarily participate in grass-removal programs. I spoke with ASU assistant professor Stylianos Syropoulos for KJZZ Phoenix. kjzz.org/education/2025…

People who cheat on their spouses are more likely to cheat at work, too. Evidence: Marital infidelity predicts 2-3x greater odds of professional misconduct among CEOs, financial advisors, and police officers. Integrity is not a 9-5 job. Character counts in every part of life.

Who should have a voice in a just society? 🗳️ Our new JEP:G paper finds that young children and adults believe voting should be for everyone—not just the elite or the most capable. But being morally bad is seen as a fair reason to lose this right. doi.org/10.1037/xge000…

Look at how Trump's tariffs are affecting retail prices.

I’ll be considering grad student applications this year UMass Amherst - check out caslumass.com for some of our current projects seeking to understand and treat self-injurious behaviors, suicide, and borderline personality disorder with digital health, DBT

Looking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: as.cornell.edu/research/klarm… (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!

I’m excited to share our new nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health. Details in thread.🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…