Future Tense by Geoffrey L. Cohen
Drawing on decades of psychological research and experiments, this book argues that our ability to imagine the future—prospection—profoundly shapes individual choices and collective outcomes; it explains why people often discount long-term risks (from personal finance and health to climate and civic life), how social and cognitive frames make future consequences feel distant or irrelevant, and which simple interventions—strengthening continuity with one’s future self, vivid episodic simulation, reframing trade-offs, and redesigning institutions—can nudge behavior toward wiser, more future-minded decisions.
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