EFFECT OF SMOKING ON RISK-TAKING IN A SIMULATED PASSING TASK
Smokers are reported to be involved in traffic accidents more frequently than nonsmokers. One possible explanation for this is that smokers may take more risks (or may be less accurate at evaluating risk) than nonsmokers. To explore this possibility, nonsmokers, smokers-deprived, and smokers were required to perform a simulated car passing task -- task which, in actual driving situations, may be fraught with risk. However, no significant differences were detected as a function of the Smoking Condition. Therefore, it was concluded that nonsmokers, smokers-deprived, and smokers did not differ either in their willingness to take risks or in the accuracy with which they were able to evaluate risk. Differences were detected, though, as a function of trials, viz. , with practice, the subjects became more accurate in evaluating risk.
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Corporate Authors:
Human Factors Society
Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore, MD United States 21218 -
Authors:
- Schori, T R
- Jones, B W
- Publication Date: 1977-2
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 37-45
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Serial:
- Human Factors
- Volume: 19
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0018-7208
- EISSN: 1547-8181
- Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Ability tests; Automobile drivers; Behavior; Driving simulators; Evaluation; Food; Hazards; Human factors engineering; Human factors engineering; Human machine systems; Passing; Psychology; Research; Risk assessment; Smoking; Systems engineering; Traffic crashes
- Old TRIS Terms: Automobile-passing tasks; Behavioral research; Systems science and cybernetics
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00165183
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 29 1978 12:00AM