“…Short-sighted behaviors, such as substance use, overspending, and unhealthy diets, are known to be generally self-defeating and to generate adverse consequences across a variety of domains (e.g., health, well-being, finance; Hershfield et al, 2011 ; Rutchick et al, 2018 ). Such behaviors tend to offer immediate gains, benefitting the ‘present self’, while instilling costs in the longer run, and hence harming the ‘future self’ ( Van Gelder et al, 2013 , Van Gelder et al, 2022 ). Conversely, being oriented towards the future stimulates behaviors beneficial to one's psychosocial development and well-being (e.g., Steinberg et al, 2009 ).…”