Syropoulos Stylianos, Law Kyle Fiore, Kraft-Todd Gordon, Young Liane
Boston College, MA, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Jan 7:1461672241307800. doi: 10.1177/01461672241307800.
Across a series of eight high-powered studies ( = 6,866), we develop a method for assessing impartial intergenerational beneficence, defined as intergenerational concern for all possible future generations. Across our studies, roughly 20% of participants displayed impartial intergenerational beneficence. Participants with impartial intergenerational beneficence expressed greater perceptions that future threats can be resolved, support for policies seeking to protect future generations of people, and a profound sense of responsibility for the long-term survival and prosperity of humanity. Similarly, associations with various future-oriented attitudes, patterns of prosociality, and longtermism-related behaviors and intentions were noted. This research thus introduces a method to capture impartiality in expressed intergenerational concern and finds that people who display impartial intergenerational concern endorse prosocial principles, such as altruism and utilitarianism, while also being more concerned about their own future, the future of others, and how they will be remembered by others.
在一系列八项大规模研究（N = 6866）中，我们开发了一种评估公正的代际慈善行为的方法，公正的代际慈善行为被定义为对所有可能的后代的代际关怀。在我们的研究中，大约20%的参与者表现出公正的代际慈善行为。表现出公正的代际慈善行为的参与者更倾向于认为未来的威胁是可以解决的，更支持旨在保护后代的政策，并且对人类的长期生存和繁荣有着深刻的责任感。同样，研究还发现了公正的代际慈善行为与各种面向未来的态度、亲社会行为模式以及与长期主义相关的行为和意图之间的关联。因此，这项研究引入了一种方法来衡量代际关怀中所体现的公正性，并发现表现出公正的代际关怀的人认同利他主义和功利主义等亲社会原则，同时也更关心自己的未来、他人的未来以及他人对自己的记忆方式。
