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Since time is an integral part of human existence, people not only have to make judgments and decisions with moral implications in response to events that occur in the here and now. They also have to do so in response to events that are temporally remote.
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Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2013). Temporal Construal and Moral Motivation. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_11
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