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THE PACE OF LIFE: REVISITED
Author(s) -
Bornstein Marc H.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597908246715
Subject(s) - pace , psychology , population , relation (database) , rural population , social life , cognition , demographic economics , social psychology , demography , sociology , geography , social science , economics , computer science , neuroscience , geodesy , database
Ambulation is one routine aspect of the pace of life. In Western societies at least, human ambulation varies in a linear fashion with the size of the local population. This relation can be described adequately by the formula, Velocity = 0.86 log Population + 0.05 . Ergonomical, cognitive, social, and economic explanations for this result are examined, and hypotheses for further cross‐cultural investigation of urban‐rural differences in pace of life are proposed.