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Social discounting outpredicts temporal discounting in intergenerational judgment: A many labs investigation

2026-04-29

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<p>Many current issues (e.g., climate change) plausibly also affect future generations, but research suggests that people are less concerned about the well-being of future humans. Future humans are temporally, but also socially distant. We tested whether intergenerational judgment tracks more closely with temporal discounting or social discounting. In a preregistered study, N=5,801 undergraduate participants from...

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Literature Corpus work: 3f7a46e1-5c7b-5773-a817-2c3803eb154c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6qyv7_v1

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