A new empirical framework to measure beliefs about the future well‐being of all humanity

Q2 Social Sciences

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1111/issj.12522

Xiaobin Lou, Brian W. Haas

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Abstract

Many important decisions that people are faced with hold consequences for future generations of humans on Earth. However, it is currently not well understood how people think about the future of all humans on Earth. This study was designed to explore the way people think about the past and future of all of humanity. We investigate people's beliefs about the past and future of all humanity (1000 years) as compared to people's beliefs about the remembered past and predicted future of their own lives (10 years). We found that the trajectory of quality of life is dissociable according to humanity vs individual levels, and that beliefs about the past and future of all humanity are linked to several personality and dispositional traits (neuroticism, conscientiousness, optimism and time orientation) and values/attitudes (current life satisfaction, science and technology and system justification). These findings provide a useful framework to further investigate how people think about the future of all humanity and shed new light on potential correlates to the way the future of humanity is imagined.

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衡量全人类未来福祉信念的新经验框架

人们面临的许多重要决定都会对地球上的后代产生影响。然而，目前人们还不太了解人们是如何思考地球上全人类的未来的。本研究旨在探索人们思考全人类的过去和未来的方式。我们将人们对全人类的过去和未来（1000 年）的看法与人们对自己记忆中的过去和预测中的未来（10 年）的看法进行了比较。我们发现，生活质量的轨迹可以根据人类与个人的层次进行区分，而且对全人类的过去和未来的信念与若干人格和性格特征（神经质、自觉性、乐观主义和时间取向）以及价值观/态度（当前生活满意度、科学技术和系统合理性）有关。这些发现为进一步研究人们如何思考全人类的未来提供了一个有用的框架，并对人类未来想象方式的潜在相关因素提供了新的启示。

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