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No time like the future? Towards a generative, prospective and possibilities-focussed ‘futures social psychology’

2025-08-18

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<p>Anticipating, considering and incorporating possible futures is a central component of human social life. Our social actions, beliefs, values and interactions are all oriented towards, or away from, various future outcomes. Yet despite this, social psychology is yet to harness its unique contribution to our understanding of the future, not addressing the challenges that many other disciplines are confronting in...

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20c5a11a-0ec2-5f49-97d8-fc3b03d95d80
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10.31234/osf.io/eadpb_v1
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