Stylianos Syropoulos
stysyropoulos.bsky.social
Stylianos Syropoulos
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at the College of Global Futures, Arizona State University | morality, sustainability, and intergenerational decision-making
https://www.stylianossyropoulos.com/

Psychology 40%
Political science 18%

They are the same.

on October 23, 2025, at 11:59 PM
Researchers from Arizona State University seek to understand the reasons for people choosing whether or not to participate in grass-removal programs. The project focuses on the programs in Scottsdale.
ASU professor involved in water project studying what motivates people to remove their grass
Researchers from Arizona State University seek to understand the reasons for people choosing whether or not to participate in grass-removal programs. The project focuses on the programs in Scottsdale.
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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 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
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/ps...

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Thanks Mark. My colleagues and I emailed the editor expressing this as well.

And perhaps the icing on the cake, blatantly failing to even acknowledge that future thinking and the study of future generations is a real topic, disregarding hundreds of papers on this issue across fields:

" "Concern about Future People" Is Not Real" "

Here is another one, where this R criticizes another paper of mine in PSPB: "Perhaps the reviewers of the paper appearing in PSPB (and the editor that accepted it for publication) were not at all curious about construct validity. Those reviewers, however, are elsewhere.

Another gem: "We may as well discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, or how elves, leprechauns, and pixies should be treated if we assume that they exist. If there are ANY real world implications of ANY of this, the authors are obligated to provide these."

Venting about possibly the worst peer review I have received.

This review was mostly an ad hominem attack, criticizing my work outside of the scope of this paper, and concluded with this sentence:

"Please direct your considerable creativity in a direction likely to advance meaningful knowledge."