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• Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University

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Dr. Law is a social psychologist working at the intersection of moral psychology and ethical philosophy trying to better understand the outer limits of human cooperation and prosocial behavior. In particular, his research focuses on mapping the cognitive, affective, and moral architecture of exceptional altruism, driven by an underlying motivation to harness insights gleaned from the laboratory to help inspire real-world action.

Experience

• 2025–present Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Arizona State University
• 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Boston College
• 2020–2024 Core Adjunct Faculty, Siena College
• 2020–2024 Instructor, University at Albany, SUNY
• 2022–2022 Instructor, The College of Saint Rose
• 2021–2021 Instructor, Vassar College

Education

• 2024 University at Albany, SUNY, PhD (Social and Personality Psychology)
• 2021 University at Albany, SUNY, MA (Psychology)
• 2016 State University of New York at New Paltz, BA (Psychology/Evolutionary Studies)

Publications

• 2025 Climate change is an intergenerational challenge that requires intergenerationally focused behavioral solutions, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
• 2025 Impartial intergenerational beneficence: The psychology of feeling (equal) intergenerational concern for all future generations, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• 2025 A future beyond ourselves: Self-oriented prospection predicts increased intergenerational responsibility, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2025 Cultivating multigenerational moral expansion: Interventions cultivate moral concern for future generations in boundless and zero-sum contexts, British Journal of Social Psychology
• 2024 Moral future-thinking: Does the moral circle stand the test of time?, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• 2024 Caring for present and future generations alike: Longtermism and moral regard across temporal and social distance, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
• 2024 Intergenerational concern relates to constructive coping and emotional reactions to climate change via increased legacy concerns and environmental cognitive alternatives, BMC Psychology
• 2024 The probabilistic price of life across time: Generational and probabilistic distance render a life today worth more than ten tomorrow, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• 2024 Increased perceived safety in day-to-day life relates to critical national identification, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
• 2024 The case for longtermism: concern for the far future as a catalyst for pro-climate action, Npj Climate Action
• 2024 Longtermist education interventions increase concern for and action to protect future generations, Social Psychological and Personality Science
• 2024 National differences in age and future-oriented indicators relate to environmental performance, Sustainability
• 2024 Artificial intelligence, existential risk and equity: The need for multigenerational bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics
• 2024 Mapping the personality of (exceptional) intergenerational concern, Personality and Individual Differences
• 2024 Cultural tightness and its association with national levels of peace: Evidence from a cross-national investigation, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
• 2024 Responsibility to future generations: A strategy for combatting climate change across political divides, British Journal of Social Psychology
• 2024 Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: A false dichotomy, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• 2023 Why do longtermists care about protecting the environment? An investigation on the underlying mechanisms of pro-climate policy support, Sustainability
• 2022 Biased benevolence: The perceived morality of effective altruism across social distance, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• 2021 Against empathy bias: The moral value of equitable empathy, Psychological Science
• 2019 Ego depletion: Theory and evidence, The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation

Grants and Contracts

• 2025 The Theory of Contextual Normative Morality: A Pilot Investigation Role: Co-Investigator Funding Source: Institution for Social Science Research
• 2025 Intergenerational Empathic Effort Role: Co-PI Funding Source: Consortium for Moral Decision-Making
• 2023 Investigating how Love can Promote Peace Across Social, Temporal and Geographic Boundaries Role: PI Funding Source: APA Division 48
• 2021 Universal Love: Expanding the Limits of Exceptional Care Role: Co-Investigator Funding Source: John Templeton Foundation
• 2016 AYURE Travel Award Role: PI Funding Source: State University of New York Research Foundation
• 2015 AYURE Research Grant Role: PI Funding Source: State University of New York Research Foundation

Professional Memberships

• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Association for Psychological Science
• American Psychological Association
• APA Division 34: Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology

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