Kyle Fiore Law is a social psychologist, postdoctoral research scholar in the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action Lab (ASU’s Global Futures School of Sustainability), and a member of the Imaginary College at Center for Science and the Imagination. In Fall 2026, he will join the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. At heart, Kyle studies one of humanity’s most consequential upgrades: how we expand moral concern beyond the circles evolution handed us — across social groups, borders, and generations — and how imagination can be used as a practical tool for building futures we’d actually want to live in.
Kyle’s research blends experiments, large-scale computational social science, and cross-cultural survey work to map what he thinks of as the “moral architecture” of prosociality: the mix of empathy, reasoning, values, and perceived obligations that determines who we help, how much, and why. His recent and forthcoming work spans topics like intergenerational stewardship and future-generations policy support, moral expansiveness across countries, and how reasoning and empathy can work together (rather than compete) in motivating exceptional altruism.
A throughline in Kyle’s work is translating research into interventions and experiences that make long-horizon thinking feel less abstract. He is a co-investigator on funded projects with the Center for Science and the Imagination developing a futures-agency toolkit for veteran reintegration and evaluating a workshop series designed to help groups collaboratively re-story shared imaginaries of sustainable futures.
Kyle also writes for public audiences about future generations, morality, and long-term responsibility, with bylines at The Conversation and other outlets.
His work has received press coverage including NBC News Now, The Independent, and Nautilus, including reporting on a large-scale project analyzing 38 million U.S. obituaries to understand what Americans value most in a “life well lived.”