TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating with the future
T2 - incorporating imaginary future generations into negotiations
AU - Kamijo, Yoshio
AU - Komiya, Asuka
AU - Mifune, Nobuhiro
AU - Saijo, Tatsuyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research [B] 26285047 for YK, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research [A] 24243028 and Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research 16K13354 for TS).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Japan.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - People to be born in the future have no direct influence on current affairs. Given the disconnect between people who are currently living and those who will inherit the planet left for them, individuals who are currently alive tend to be more oriented toward the present, posing a fundamental problem related to sustainability. In this study, we propose a new framework for reconciling the disconnect between the present and the future whereby some individuals in the current generation serve as an imaginary future generation that negotiates with individuals in the real-world present. Through a laboratory-controlled intergenerational sustainability dilemma game (ISDG), we show how the presence of negotiators for a future generation increases the benefits of future generations. More specifically, we found that when faced with members of an imaginary future generation, 60% of participants selected an option that promoted sustainability. In contrast, when the imaginary future generation was not salient, only 28% of participants chose the sustainable option.
AB - People to be born in the future have no direct influence on current affairs. Given the disconnect between people who are currently living and those who will inherit the planet left for them, individuals who are currently alive tend to be more oriented toward the present, posing a fundamental problem related to sustainability. In this study, we propose a new framework for reconciling the disconnect between the present and the future whereby some individuals in the current generation serve as an imaginary future generation that negotiates with individuals in the real-world present. Through a laboratory-controlled intergenerational sustainability dilemma game (ISDG), we show how the presence of negotiators for a future generation increases the benefits of future generations. More specifically, we found that when faced with members of an imaginary future generation, 60% of participants selected an option that promoted sustainability. In contrast, when the imaginary future generation was not salient, only 28% of participants chose the sustainable option.
KW - Imaginary future generation
KW - Intergenerational sustainability dilemma game
KW - Negotiation
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U2 - 10.1007/s11625-016-0419-8
DO - 10.1007/s11625-016-0419-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85007508003
SN - 1862-4065
VL - 12
SP - 409
EP - 420
JO - Sustainability Science
JF - Sustainability Science
IS - 3
ER -