TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Christin
A1  - Hoppe, Julia Amelie
A1  - Ziemann, Niklas
T1  - The hare and the hedgehog
BT  - empirical evidence on the relationship between the individual Pace of Life and the speed-accuracy continuum
JF  - PLoS one
N2  - Against the background of the speed-accuracy trade-off, we explored whether the Pace of Life can be used to identify heterogeneity in the strategy to place more weight on either fast or accurate accomplishments. The Pace of Life approaches an individual's exposure to time and is an intensively studied concept in the evolutionary biology research. Albeit overall rarely, it is increasingly used to understand human behavior and may fulfill many criteria of a personal trait. In a controlled laboratory environment, we measured the participants' Pace of Life, as well as their performance on a real-effort task. In the real-effort task, the participants had to encode words, whereby each word encoded correctly was associated with a monetary reward. We found that individuals with a faster Pace of Life accomplished more tasks in total. At the same time, they were less accurate and made more mistakes (in absolute terms) than those with a slower Pace of Life. Thus, the Pace of Life seems to be useful to identify an individual's stance on the speed-accuracy continuum. In our specific task, placing more weight on speed instead of accuracy paid off: Individuals with a faster Pace of Life were ultimately more successful (with regard to their monetary revenue).
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256490
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 16
IS  - 8
PB  - PLoS
CY  - San Fransisco
ER  -