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- Title
Seeing into the Future: Future Time Orientation as a Moderator of Temporal Distance Effects on Educators' Decisions.
- Authors
Kogut, Tehila; Eyal, Tal; Sharon, Idit
- Abstract
Research suggests that the temporal distance from decision outcomes leads to divergent decisions for the near and the distal future. As such, high-level idealistic concerns and values dominate decisions for the distant future, whereas low-level pragmatic concerns play a greater role in decisions for the near future. We examined how individual differences in future time orientation are related to decisions vis-à-vis the near versus the distal future. The results of three studies, with participants with varying levels of expertise-students (Studies 2 and 3), teachers (Study 1), and school principals (Study 2)-show that principals tend to be overall more idealistic in their choices. Yet discrepancies between decisions for the near versus the distal future exist among all three levels of expertise. However, this dominance of idealistic over pragmatic concerns for more distant future decisions effect was smaller the higher the future time orientation was (whether measured or manipulated). Implications for educational and managerial decision making and training are discussed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
TIME perspective; TIME perception; FUTURE (Logic); IDEALISM; PRAGMATISM; DECISION making
- Publication
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 4, p889
- ISSN
0894-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bdm.2015