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 temporal...

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Published in:PloS one 2025-05, Vol.20 (5), p.e0317422
Main Authors: Robertson, Cole, Roberts, Seán G., Majid, Asifa, Dunbar, Robin I. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Behavior
Bilingualism
Biology and Life Sciences
Climate change
Cognition & reasoning
Decision making
Decisions
Delay Discounting
Discounts
Economic aspects
Economics
English language
Female
Grammar, Comparative and general
Humans
Hypotheses
Language
Linguistics
Male
Netherlands
Rain
Research and Analysis Methods
Social Sciences
Tense
Young Adult
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