Risk-taking on the road and in the mind: behavioural and neural patterns of decision making between risky and safe drivers

Drivers' risk-taking is a key issue of road safety. This study explored individual differences in drivers' decision-making, linking external behaviours to internal neural activity, to reveal the cognitive mechanisms of risky driving. Twenty-four male drivers were split into two groups (risky vs. safe drivers) via the Drivier Behaviour Questionnaire-violation. The risky drivers demonstrated higher preference for the risky choices in the paradigms of Iowa Gambling Task and Balloon Analogue Risk Task. More importantly, the risky drivers showed lower amplitudes of feedback-related negativity (FRN) and loss-minus-gain FRN in both paradigms, which indicated their neural processing of error-detection. A significant difference of P300 amplitudes was also reported between groups, which indicated their neural processing of reward-evaluation and were modified by specific paradigm and feedback. These results suggested that the neural basis of risky driving was the decision patterns less revised by losses and more motivated by rewards.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1056236
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
• Authors:
  • Ba, Yutao
  • Zhang, Wei
  • Peng, Qijia
  • Salvendy, Gavriel
  • Crundall, David
• Publication Date: 2016-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 27-38
• Serial:
  • Ergonomics
  • Volume: 59
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0014-0139
  • EISSN: 1366-5847
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/terg20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Cognition; Decision making; Driving; High risk drivers; Highway safety; Low risk drivers; Males; Risk taking
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01597598
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 2016 2:43PM