Stylianos Syropoulos

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.

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 @kjzzphoenix. kjzz.org/education/2025…

Back to X just to post new PNAS paper for @elonmusk: we find @CommunityNotes 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…

🧵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…

Excited to share @SeoyeonBae211’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…

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

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 @ConversationUS @SSyropoulos

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… @SSyropoulos @PaigeAmormino @LianeLeeYoung @benrogersOB

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.

New preprint w/ @MaxMa1er, @vanessachg_, Fiery Cushman, & @FalkLieder: 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

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @PNASNews w/ @falklab, @MichaelEMann, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A huge congratulations to Dr. @PaigeAmormino, who successfully defended her fantastic dissertation on altruism, social discounting, homophily, and the social factors that shape them--and who we celebrated in an LSAN lab party last night (just before the rains hit)! @GUPsychology

Hey y’all! New paper with @LianeLeeYoung & @SSyropoulos is out in BJSP! bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… We test ways to expand moral concern to future generations, with spillover benefits for distant others today too. #AcademicTwitter #Psychology #research