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Decisions that individuals make today not only affect the experiences of contemporaries, but also determine resources available to future generations. Research on self-other trade-offs (e.g., Jones & Rachlin, 2006; Loewenstein, Thompson, & Bazerman, 1989) and intertemporal discounting in individual decision making (e.g., Frederick, Loewenstein, & O’Donoghue, 2002; Loewenstein, Read, & Baumeister, 2003) has found that individuals tend to be selfish and shortsighted in their use of resources. That is, individuals favor using resources them-selves rather than allocating them to others, and they favor immediate to future consumption. Thus, one would expect that when individuals are faced with making self-other trade-offs in intergenerational contexts, beneficence to others in the future would be quite minimal. Indeed, research has demon-strated that as the temporal distance between a decision and it