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Acting in light of the future: How do future-oriented cultural practices evolve and how can we accelerate their evolution?
2015
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Despite extensive knowledge of how to prevent or ameliorate serious diseases, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and a wide range of other problems, we often fail to take action that that would prevent or mitigate these problematic outcomes. In short, although we may have sound scientific knowledge about threats to future wellbeing, we appear to have limited insight into how to benefit from this knowledge. With this paper, we argue that our current scientific understanding of how to
doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2015.06.002
pmid:26693140
pmcid:PMC4673668
fatcat:smyotf6fjrfbhitixd7gtkof64