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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffmann, Christin A1 - Hoppe, Julia Amelie A1 - Ziemann, Niklas T1 - Faster, harder, greener? BT - empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior JF - Ecological economics N2 - Against the background of the current "Speed-Up Society," which seems to foster a trade-off between economic success and climate change, we study whether the individual Pace of Life is associated with productivity and proenvironmental behavior on the micro-level. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, we measured the productivity of participants in a real effort task, quantified their pro-environmental behavior, and recorded their individual Pace of Life. We find that individuals with a fast Pace of Life are significantly more productive. However, individuals with a fast Pace of Life behave less pro-environmentally if they are men and more pro-environmentally if they are women. KW - Charitable giving KW - Limits of growth KW - Pace of Life KW - Pro-environmental KW - behavior KW - Speed-Up Society Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107212 SN - 0921-8009 VL - 191 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffmann, Christin A1 - Hoppe, Julia Amelie A1 - Ziemann, Niklas T1 - Who has the future in mind? BT - gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour JF - 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 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9296 SN - 1748-9326 VL - 17 IS - 10 PB - Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) CY - Bristol ER -