TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Christin
A1  - Hoppe, Julia Amelie
A1  - Ziemann, Niklas
T1  - Who has the future in mind?
T2  - Environmental research letters
N2  - An individual's relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. We studied whether young individual's gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time-orientation. In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmental behaviour.
KW  - gender differences
KW  - incentivised choices
KW  - pro-environmental behaviour
KW  - time perspectives
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63262
SN  - 1748-9326
VL  - 17
IS  - 10
PB  - Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
CY  - Bristol
ER  -