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dc.contributor.authorTerum, Jens Andreas
dc.contributor.authorSvartdal, Frode
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-17T12:13:04Z
dc.date.available2020-01-17T12:13:04Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-17
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this article is risky behavior in traffic. What do people learn from accidents and near-accidents? Experience with accidents may demand increased caution. However, near-accidents are inherently ambiguous: On the one hand, they signal that margins were good enough, inspiring increased risk-taking; on the other hand, they signal danger that could induce increased caution. To explore these issues, participants (<i>N</i> = 614) answered 47 questions related to safe traffic behavior as well as reported on their experiences with traffic accidents and near-accidents, assessing changes in cautiousness as well as cognitive (i.e., counterfactual thinking) and emotional mechanisms possibly involved in learning from such experience. Results indicate that people do not become more cautious after accidents, whereas repeated experiences with near-accidents seem to foster less cautious traffic behavior. We discuss emotional and cognitive mechanisms related to these effects, and suggest that cautiousness after near-accidents is associated with assuming personal responsibility and upward counterfactual comparisons. We conclude that the mechanisms involved in learning from near-accidents are theoretically interesting, as well as important for the understanding of safe driving behavior.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTerum, Svartdal. Lessons learned from accident and near-accident experiences in traffic. Safety Science. 2019en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1718202
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ssci.2019.07.040
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.issn1879-1042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17130
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalSafety Science
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleLessons learned from accident and near-accident experiences in trafficen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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