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Cross-cultural evidence for temporal pessimism about climate change harm

2025-09-25

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<p>Although people often exhibit temporal comparative optimism—expecting their own future to be better than others’—this pattern reverses when evaluating the natural environment. In this pre-registered brief empirical note, we provide further empirical support for temporal pessimism whereby people anticipate worsening environmental conditions over time, especially for future generations. Using a large cross-cultur...

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Literature Corpus work: ce149cac-2b00-5116-825b-1ae78df5f4fb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/d8fxm_v1

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