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Low-certainty modals not future tenses cause increased psychological discounting in English relative to Dutch.
Cole Robertson, Seán G Roberts, Asifa Majid, Tammy Lu, Philip Wolff, Robin I M Dunbar
Published: 202610.1016/j.cognition.2025.106338
Abstract
Speaking a language that obliges the future tense for linguistic Future Time Reference (FTR) may cause speakers to devalue future outcomes. Evidence suggests such grammars make speakers less "future-oriented": less likely, for example, to invest, eat…
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