Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviour?

Understanding the determinants of pro-environmental behaviour is key to addressing many environmental challenges. Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that human partly determined by people's economic preferences which therefore should predict individual differences in behaviour. In a pre-registered study, we elicit seven preference measures (risk taking, patience, present bias, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative trust) test whether they everyday life measured using day reconstruction method. We find only altruism significantly associated with This suggests pro-social aspects are more salient people than riskiness intertemporal structure these behaviours. also show an exploratory analysis different clusters behaviours predicted indicating considerations relevant for some, but not other,