Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think about the Future

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Review of General Psychology

• Publication date

  2016-03-01

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/gpr0000060
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