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When does deprivation motivate future-oriented thinking? The case of climate change

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Abstract Pepper & Nettle overstate cross-domain evidence of present-oriented thinking among lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) groups and overlook key social and contextual drivers of temporal decision making. We consider psychological research on… Click to show full abstract

Abstract Pepper & Nettle overstate cross-domain evidence of present-oriented thinking among lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) groups and overlook key social and contextual drivers of temporal decision making. We consider psychological research on climate change – a quintessential intertemporal problem that implicates inequities and extrinsic mortality risk – documenting more future-oriented thinking among low- compared to high-SES groups.

Keywords: oriented thinking; deprivation motivate; climate change; future oriented

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017

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