DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102008
论文题名: Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game
作者: Hurlstone M.J. ; Price A. ; Wang S. ; Leviston Z. ; Walker I.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2020
卷: 60 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Climate change
; Cooperation
; Intergenerational discounting
; Legacy motive
; Tragedy of the commons
; Tragedy of the horizon
英文关键词: climate change
; cooperative behavior
; decision making
; future prospect
; public goods
; research work
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 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168182
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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
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Hurlstone M.J.,Price A.,Wang S.,et al. Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,60