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Intergenerational decision making

Improving the lives of future people

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  1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA

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Syropoulos, S. Improving the lives of future people. Nat Rev Psychol 2, 719 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00249-x

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