TY - GEN A1 - Goldbach, Carina A1 - Hoffmann, Christin A1 - Hoppe, Julia Amelie A1 - Pitz, Thomas A1 - Thommes, Kirsten T1 - The fast and the furious—An experimental investigation of the pace of life and risky speed choice in traffic T2 - PLOS ONE N2 - Despite discernible improvements in the last decades, speeding is still a pertinent problem for road safety, fuel efficiency, and greenhouse gas mitigation. In order to understand individual speeding decisions, we need a better understanding of who speeds. In our paper, we test whether individuals' general pace of life is associated with speeding decisions. We use a novel speed-choice experiment that confronts participants with a scenario in which they repeatedly decide between driving fast or slow. This decision is associated with different accident risks. Before the experiment, each participant's pace of life was measured. Our results show that individuals with a slower pace of life are more likely to choose slow in the experiment and are also more likely to switch to slow, even when they had success by driving fast in the preliminary round. Therefore, individuals' pace of life may contribute to our understanding of speeding. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236589 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236589 SN - 1932-6203 VL - 15 IS - 7 ER -