Using foresight to prioritise the present

作者:Bulley Adam*; Pepper Gillian; Suddendorf Thomas
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017, 40: e79.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X16000996

摘要

Planning for the future may encourage apparently "impulsive" behaviour when the future is anticipated to be bleak. Thus, a seeming failure of self-control in reactive violence could be caused not by a disinclination to plan ahead, but by virtue of this ability. Furthermore, we point to empirical and theoretical shortcomings in the authors' case, such as a failure to distinguish proximate and ultimate explanations.

  • 出版日期2017