Language and economic behaviour: Future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting.

Previous studies have found cross-cultural correlations between linguistic obligations for talking about future events and economic decisions like saving money. The hypothesis is that a grammatical obligation to use the future tense (e.g. will) causes speakers to perceive future rewards as temporall...

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Main Authors: Cole Robertson, Seán G Roberts, Asifa Majid, Robin I M Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317422
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