The Roles of Delay and Probability Discounting in Texting While Driving: Toward the Development of a Translational Scientific Program

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• Personal Author:
  Fessler HJ ; Foreman AM ; Friedel JE ; Hayashi Y ; Wirth, Oliver
• Description:
  A sample of 109 college students completed a survey to assess how frequently they send or read text messages while driving. In a novel discounting task with a hypothetical scenario in which participants receive a text message while driving, they rated the likelihood of replying to a text message immediately versus waiting to reply until arriving at a destination. The scenario presented several delays to a destination and probabilities of a motor vehicle crash. The likelihood of waiting to reply decreased as a function of both the delay until the destination and the probability of a motor vehicle crash. Self-reported higher frequencies of texting while driving were associated with greater rates of both delay and probability discounting. The degree of delay discounting was altered as a function of the probability of a motor vehicle crash and vice versa. These results suggest that both delay and probability discounting are important underlying mechanisms of drivers' decision to text while driving. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Behavior Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Rates Author Keywords: Texting While Driving Behavior Patterns College Students Delay Discounting Drivers Impulsivity Motor Vehicles Probability Discounting Task Performance Translational Science

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• ISSN:
  0022-5002
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division ; RHD - Respiratory Health Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  229-242
• Volume:
  110
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066428
• Citation:
  J Exp Anal Behav 2018 Sep; 110(2):229-242
• Contact Point Address:
  Yusuke Hayashi, Division of Social Sciences and Education, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, PA 18202
• Email:
  yuh26@psu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5fd27e5fa417a04f5cdbbca6b56484843722669aad529a9c0d2a92be3d1b494d4bf4835efb4c2d5d26a4c522e9b37ef7e6857ee7d94b0d10489e3f61789eca7f
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212858/cdc_212858_DS1.pdf
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