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Trial Title
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Does an imaginary trip to the future increase people's contribution to climate change mitigation?
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Does future framing increase people's contribution to climate change mitigation?
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Trial Status
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in_development
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completed
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Abstract
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Intergenerational equity is a problem in our world. We consume too many resources today and the current way of living is not sustainable. How to help people avoid short-sightedness and increase their concern for the future? Some scholars use future design to find mechanisms to make people care about long-run problems. We study how the imaginary trip to the future as a mechanism will affect people's attitudes toward future generations. Using an imaginary trip to the future, we measure if it affects people's discount rate and also people's contribution to climate change mitigation.
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Intergenerational equity is a problem in our world. We consume too many resources today and the current way of living is not sustainable. How to help people avoid short-sightedness and increase their concern for the future? Some scholars use future design to find mechanisms to make people care about long-run problems. We study how future framings such as the imaginary trip to the future, forward and backward, and letter to the future generation will affect people's attitudes toward future generations. We measure if future framings affect people's discount rate and also people's contribution to climate change mitigation.
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Last Published
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March 13, 2023 11:02 PM
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July 21, 2025 05:22 AM
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Additional Keyword(s)
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imaginary-trip-to-the-future, climate change mitigation, discount rate
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future framing, climate change mitigation, discount rate
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