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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102008
	Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game
	Hurlstone M.J.; Price A.; Wang S.; Leviston Z.; Walker I.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	60
英文摘要	Climate change will have dangerous impacts on future generations. Accordingly, people in the present have an obligation to make sacrifices for the benefit of future others. However, research on temporal and social discounting shows that people are short-sighted and selfish—they prefer immediate over delayed benefits, and they prefer benefits for themselves over others. Discounting over long-term time horizons is known as intergenerational discounting, and is a major obstacle to climate action. Here, we examine whether persuasive messages that activate the legacy motive—the desire to build a positive legacy—can increase the willingness of current actors to make sacrifices for future generations. Using a climate change public goods game, we find that when the benefits of cooperation accrue to decision makers in the present, high levels of cooperation are sustained, whereas when the benefits accrue to future generations, intergenerational discounting makes cooperation elusive. Crucially, when the legacy motive is activated—by promoting death awareness, feelings of power asymmetry, and intergenerational reciprocity—intergenerational discounting is attenuated, and cooperation is restored. Our results suggest climate action can be fostered by framing climate change as an intergenerational dilemma, and by crafting persuasive messages that activate people's drive to leave a positive legacy. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change; Cooperation; Intergenerational discounting; Legacy motive; Tragedy of the commons; Tragedy of the horizon
学科领域	climate change; cooperative behavior; decision making; future prospect; public goods; research work
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; cooperative behavior; decision making; future prospect; public goods; research work
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/116980
作者单位	School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009 WA, Australia; Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, Netherlands; School of Arts & Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia; School of Psychology and Counselling, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hurlstone M.J.,Price A.,Wang S.,et al. Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game[J],2020,60.
APA	Hurlstone M.J.,Price A.,Wang S.,Leviston Z.,&Walker I..(2020).Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game.Global Environmental change,60.
MLA	Hurlstone M.J.,et al."Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game".Global Environmental change 60(2020).