Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma

Timilsina, Raja Rajendra; Kotani, Koji; Nakagawa, Yasuaki; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102131

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“…To overcome this limitation, researchers have successfully designed paradigms approximating the key features and contingencies of intergenerational behavior. This approach was first introduced in seminal work by Hauser and colleagues 44 and has since been applied in various behavioral studies 21 , 45 – 47 . Similar to these studies, our paradigm consisted of successive groups that were separated by a temporal gap and extracted resources from a common pool, whose overharvesting affected the payoff of the next or present group.…”

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Neural mechanisms underlying interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior

Baumgartner,

Guizar Rosales,

Knoch

2023

Sci Rep

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Intergenerational sustainability is a pressing challenge, which is exacerbated by the fact that the current generation must make sacrifices today to ensure the well-being of future generations. There are large interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior. However, the neural mechanisms underlying these interindividual differences have remained unexplored. Here, we combined fMRI with a consequential intergenerational sustainability paradigm in a sample of 72 healthy students. Specifically, we analyzed task-dependent functional activity and connectivity during intergenerational sustainable decision-making, focusing on the state-like neurophysiological processes giving rise to behavioral heterogeneity in sustainability. We found that differences in neural communication within and between the mentalizing (TPJ/DMPFC) and cognitive control (ACC/DLPFC) network are related to interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior. Specifically, the stronger the functional connectivity within and between these networks during decision-making, the more individuals behaved intergenerationally sustainably. Corroborated by mediation analyses, these findings suggest that differences in the engagement of perspective-taking and self-control processes underly interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior. By answering recent calls for leveraging behavioral and neuroscience for sustainability research, we hope to contribute to interdisciplinary efforts to advance the understanding of interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainability.

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Neural mechanisms underlying interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior

Baumgartner,

Guizar Rosales,

Knoch

2023

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“…On the other hand, Koirala et al [38] found that gender was not a significant factor in their ISDG in which university students participated. Timilsina et al [37] found that there were no significant differences in the choice of the sustainable option by gender, education, income, and single-family status in their ISDG of 102 Nepalese. Our study is intended to confirm these influences on intention to use and overuse a common local asset that is passed on to the next generation within a larger population.…”

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“…On the one hand, Nishimura et al [20] showed that younger participants in their Future Design workshop tended to be influenced by a treatment that considered an imaginary future generation in paired discussions, whereas they were not influenced by this consideration without the treatment. Shahrier et al [36] and Timilsina et al [37], who studied ISDG with Bangladeshi and Nepalese participants, respectively, showed that rural people tended to choose sustainable options more frequently than urban people did. On the other hand, Koirala et al [38] found that gender was not a significant factor in their ISDG in which university students participated.…”

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Characteristics That Influence Individuals’ Intentions to Use and Bequeath Common Assets: Time-Perspective Scales and Demographic Attributes

Tasaki,

Yokoo,

Tajima

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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As global environmental problems worsen, there is a concern for future generations who may face an unfairly degraded environment. In this study, we asked individuals from the current generation questions about using and bequeathing a common local asset to future generations in order to identify individual characteristics that influence their intentions to benefit future generations. A total of 960 Japanese individuals ranging from 20 to over 70 years old participated in an online survey. Explanatories include five time-perspective scales based on the psychology literature and demographic attributes such as age, sex, household income, marital status, final education level, and population size. Using logistic regression, we found that altruism was the most significant and positive factor influencing their intentions to benefit future generations. Three other time-perspective scales, namely future neglect, creativity, and generativity, also influenced the intentions, albeit negatively and to a lesser extent. Demographic attributes were generally not found to significantly influence intentions. Finally, we argue that three psychological conditions—time horizon, negative aspects of creativity, and sufficient altruism—could potentially lead people to choose decisions that are more beneficial to future generations.

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“…The development of the SSM (Murphy et al 2011) has enabled the measurement of SVO as a continuous variable. Consequently, an increasing number of studies now treat SVO as a dependent variable and explore its variance (Ackermann et al 2016;Cohen and Hertz 2020;Van Doesum et al 2021;Fleiß et al 2020;Timilsina et al 2019b;Jingchao et al 2021). In such research, measuring SVO with less bias is of great importance.…”

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Measuring social value orientation by model-based scoring

Mizuno,

Shimizu

2023

Behaviormetrika

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This study proposes a method of measuring social value orientation using model-based scoring and a task suitable for such scoring. We evaluated this method by means of parameter recovery simulation (Study 1), and we examined its retest reliability (Study 2) and its predictive validity (Study 3). The results indicate that the proposed method has low bias and sufficient predictive validity. While the improvement in predictive validity of altruism was negligible and comparable to previous scoring methods in terms of confidence intervals, the measurement of equality using the proposed model and task combination produced a moderate correlation that was not observed with other methods. Although SVO is a concept used primarily in psychology, the model assumed in this study is mathematically equivalent to a well-known economics model. We, therefore, suggest that this method may lead to cross-disciplinary research.

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Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma

Cited by 13 publications

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Neural mechanisms underlying interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior

Neural mechanisms underlying interindividual differences in intergenerational sustainable behavior

Characteristics That Influence Individuals’ Intentions to Use and Bequeath Common Assets: Time-Perspective Scales and Demographic Attributes

Measuring social value orientation by model-based scoring

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