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Caring for Present and Future Generations Alike: Longtermism and Moral Regard Across Temporal and Social Distance

2023-08-24

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<p>In a comprehensive investigation involving a reanalysis and five pre-registered studies (N = 4,032), we investigate if empirically identified longtermists, determined by their Longtermism Beliefs Scale (LBS) scores, exhibit heightened moral regard for present and future generations across social distances. Longtermists consistently value future generations, present generations, outgroups, and nature more than t...

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Literature Corpus work: 96989394-c75b-529b-9772-5870a82aa628
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hzwrt

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