The current research reveals that the pursuit of peace entails an inherent paradox. The urgent need to save lives and alleviate human suffering necessitates swift solutions to the problem of intergroup conflict. However, because the human mind associates peace with longer time horizons, people anticipate peace more when considering the distant rather than the near future. Six experiments demonstrate a robust and large effect whereby thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace compared to thinking about the near future. These experiments also provide evidence for the role that construal fit, that is, the tendency to match high temporal distance with abstractness, plays in this effect. We discuss implications for shorter-term and longer-term peace interventions.

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思考遥远的未来促进和平的前景：关于群体间冲突解决的解释层面的观点

目前的研究表明，追求和平需要一个内在的悖论。拯救生命和减轻人类痛苦的迫切需要需要迅速解决群体间冲突问题。然而，由于人类的思想将和平与更长的时间范围联系起来，人们在考虑遥远而不是近期的未来时更期待和平。六个实验证明了一个强大而巨大的效果，即与考虑近期的未来相比，考虑遥远的未来会促进和平的前景。这些实验还为解释拟合的作用提供了证据，即将高时间距离与抽象性相匹配的趋势在这种效果中发挥作用。我们讨论了对短期和长期和平干预的影响。