Working Papers
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Under Review + In Prep.
Antoniadis, A., Law, K.F., Rogers, B., Young, L., Goya-Tochetto, D., Amormino, P., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Impartial intergenerational beneficence predicts interest in high-impact, long-term oriented careers. PsyArXiv.
Wu, D., Syropoulos, S., Mah, A., Law, K. F., Dixon-Gordon, K., Markowitz, E., Nteta, T., Reid, A., Ginn, J., Suh, S. M., Young, L., & Lickel, B. (2025). Shifting Demographics, Shifting Perceptions: How Race and Politics Shape Reactions to the Majority-Minority Future. PsyArXiv.
Bauer, G., Law, K.F., Young, L., Amormino, P., Marsh, A., O’Connor, B.B., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Concern for future generations predicts present-day extraordinary altruism: A case study of organ donorship. PsyArXiv.
Law, K.F., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Who cares about the future? A large scale investigation into the sociodemographic predictors of self- and other-oriented future concern. PsyArXiv.
Law, K.F., Young, L., & Syropoulos S. (2025). Dispelling the myth of moral inversion: Liberal moral universalism coexists with, rather than replaces, concern for close others. PsyArXiv.
Fowler, Z., Stone, K., Law, K. F., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Uncovering and targeting individual differences predicting identification with all of humanity. PsyArXiv.
Law, K.F., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations: Evidence across collective, governmental, and moral considerations. PsyArXiv.
Fowler, Z., Law, K. F., Young, L., Schooler, J., & Syropoulos, S. (2024). Gratitude towards our past self and general gratitude enhance self-continuity. PsyArXiv.
Bae, S., Syropoulos, S., Law, K. F., O’Connor, B., Amormino, P., Crimston, C., Bastian, B., Marsh, A., & Young, L. (2025). Altruistic, not reputational concerns, drive human prosociality, values, and aspirations across the world. PsyArXiv.
Xiao, Z., Law, K. F., Wu, D., Mah, A., Dixon-Gordon, K., Markowitz, E., Nteta, T., Reid, A., Ginn, J., Suh, S. M., Lickel, B., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Perceived similarity and its consequences: Political misperceptions and intergroup attitudes in the U.S. PsyArXiv.
Law, K. F., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2025). Toward a psychology of intergenerational futures thinking: Longitudinal evidence linking intergenerational dispositions to collective action for future humanity. PsyArXiv.
Handley-Miner, I. J.,* Mazzuchi, T.,* Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Young, L. (2025, July 1). Registered report: The role of consequence in evaluating claims as true or false. Psychological Science.
Nelson-Pryor, K., Syropoulos, S., Kraft-Todd, G., Young, L., & Steinberg, L. (2025). Interdisciplinarity and intellectual virtues in knowledge work: Evidence from a longitudinal survey of IDR-engaged faculty. Science, Technology, & Human Values, Under Review.
Loustau, T., Mah, A., Park, B., Dixon-Gordon, K., Markowitz, E., Nteta, T., Reid, A., Ginn, J., Suh, S., Lickel, B., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2024). Social Network Heterogeneity and Mental Well-Being in Times of Uncertainty.
Kim, M., Theriault, J., & Young, L. (2024). Social prediction in the Theory of Mind Network.
Law, K.F., Syropoulos, S., Young, L., & O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Mapping prescriptive beliefs on seventh generation stewardship and increasing the temporal scope of intergenerational concern. PsyArXiv.
Law, K.F.,* Syropoulos, S.,* Signorini, A., Young, L., & O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Why poverty in the present matters for intergenerational concern and the future of humanity. PsyArXiv.
Syropoulos, S.,* Law, K.F.,* Young, L., & O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Beyond seven generations: Mapping and expanding the temporal horizon of intergenerational concern. PsyArXiv.
Law, K. F.,* Syropoulos, S.,* Young, L., & O’Connor, B. B. (2024). What we owe the present: The perceived morality of longtermism and helping distant future people. PsyArXiv.
Handley-Miner, I. J., & Young, L. (2024, October 10). Registered report: How does the process of explaining affect one’s beliefs?
Wylie, J., Dhaliwal, N., Sparkman, G., & Young, L. (under review). When are prosocial institutional signals seen as genuine? The role of politics and institutional characteristics.
Szanton, E. C., Lei, R. F., Foster-Hanson, E., Kumar, V., & Young, L. (under review). Free to abandon “Born This Way” narratives? A test of the motivated model of sexual orientation essentialism.
Kodipady, A., Young, L., & Sparkman, G. (in prep.). The precursors to and consequences of threat-related motivations to perceive reputation signaling.
Tsoi, L., Hamlin, K., Waytz, A., Baron, A. S., & Young, L. (in prep.). False belief understanding for negative versus positive interactions in children and adults.
Tsoi, L., Lee, Y. S., & Young, L. (in prep.). Categorical perception of race is mediated by distributed patterns of activity in the brain.