ArticleAccident; analysis and prevention2015
Texting while driving as impulsive choice: A behavioral economic analysis.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Simulated Driving Performance, Self-Reported Driving Behaviors, and Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescent Novice Drivers.Nursing researchTrial
- A hierarchical cluster analysis of young drivers based on their perceived risk and frequency of texting while driving.Journal of safety research · 2023Article
- The phenotype of recovery II: The association between delay discounting, self-reported quality of life, and remission status among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Relationships between Personality Traits and Brain Gray Matter Are Different in Risky and Non-risky Drivers.Behavioural neurology · 2022Article
- Texting while driving: A discrete choice experiment.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2021Article
- Individual Differences in Intertemporal Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Relationships between Driver Errors and Delay Discounting in a Simulated Driving Task.Perspectives on behavior science · 2020Article
- A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Demand for Texting while Driving.The Psychological record · 2019Article
- Wired to be connected? Links between mobile technology engagement, intertemporal preference and frontostriatal white matter connectivity.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Threat appeals reduce impulsive decision making associated with texting while driving: A behavioral economic approach.PloS one · 2019Article
- Does delay discounting predict maladaptive health and financial behaviors in smokers?Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Article
- Texting/Emailing While Driving Among High School Students in 35 States, United States, 2015.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- The roles of delay and probability discounting in texting while driving: Toward the development of a translational scientific program.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2018Article
- Executive function and dangerous driving behaviors in young drivers.Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour · 2018Article
- Attitudes on technological, social, and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use among teens while driving.Traffic injury prevention · 2018Article
- Temporal discounting across three psychiatric disorders: Anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder, and social anxiety disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2017Article
- Texting while driving, executive function, and impulsivity in college students.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2017Article
- A framework for understanding and advancing intertemporal choice research using rodent models.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2017Review
- Mechanisms behind distracted driving behavior: The role of age and executive function in the engagement of distracted driving.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2017Article
- A behavioral economic analysis of texting while driving: Delay discounting processes.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2016Article
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Abstract
The goal of the present study was to examine the utility of a behavioral economic analysis to investigate the role of delay discounting in texting while driving. A sample of 147 college students completed a survey to assess how frequently they send and read text messages while driving. Based on this information, students were assigned to one of two groups: 19 students who frequently text while driving and 19 matched-control students who infrequently text while driving but were similar in gender, age, years of education, and years driving. The groups were compared on the extent to which they discounted, or devalued, delayed hypothetical monetary rewards using a delay-discounting task. In this task, students made repeated choices between $1000 available after a delay (ranging from 1 week to 10 years) and an equal or lesser amount of money available immediately. The results show that the students who frequently text while driving discounted delayed rewards at a greater rate than the matched control students. The study supports the conclusions that texting while driving is fundamentally an impulsive choice made by drivers, and that a behavioral economic approach may be a useful research tool for investigating the decision-making processes underlying risky behaviors.
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