Does future time reference framing increase temporal discounting? Evidence from English monolinguals

IF 2.3 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2025.102796

Josie I. Chen , Yue Han , Tai-Sen He

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Abstract

Despite growing support for the linguistic-savings hypothesis (LSH), direct causal evidence remains limited. Recent research has investigated whether future time reference framing affects intertemporal decision-making, particularly in languages with weak future-time-reference (w-FTR) distinctions, though these studies have largely yielded null results. One critique of these null results is that speakers of w-FTR languages may be insensitive to the subtle language framing intended to prime distinctions between present and future, unlike speakers of strong future-time-reference (s-FTR) languages. To address this gap, the present study re-examines the framing effect within English, an s-FTR language, using a sample of nearly 600 monolingual participants. Consistent with previous findings, the results provide no evidence supporting the LSH in the context of future time reference framing.

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未来的时间参考框架会增加时间折扣吗？来自英语单语者的证据

尽管越来越多的人支持语言储蓄假说（LSH），但直接的因果证据仍然有限。最近的研究调查了未来时间参考框架是否会影响跨期决策，特别是在未来时间参考（w-FTR）差异较弱的语言中，尽管这些研究在很大程度上没有结果。对这些无效结果的一个批评是，w-FTR语言的使用者可能对旨在区分现在和未来的微妙语言框架不敏感，不像强未来时间参考（s-FTR）语言的使用者。为了解决这一差距，本研究使用近600名单语参与者的样本，重新检查了英语（一种s-FTR语言）中的框架效应。与先前的研究结果一致，结果没有提供证据支持LSH在未来时间参考框架的背景下。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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31.40%

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63 days

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