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This experiment proposes three innovations to the pioneering experimental research on Future Design. First, it adopts a fully computerized laboratory experiment. Second, while the aggregate effects of decisions still loom over the next groups in the experimental flow, decisions are here made individually. Third, the Future Design protocol is rendered in a more symmetric and institutionalized way: each member of a generation (group) is asked to imagine that she belongs to the next generation (group) and to send a short message to her peers on behalf of such an imaginary future self. In addition, we investigate the effects of different ways of eliciting the guiding principle that a group should follow by having each group member choose between two statements about the importance of striving for sustainability or not. We examine this aspect in two treatment protocols characterized by the presence or absence of the Rawlsian veil of ignorance (i.e., participants do not know to which generation they belong). |
