ArticleAccident; analysis and prevention2016
A behavioral economic analysis of texting while driving: Delay discounting processes.
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- Delay discounting of different outcomes: Review and theory.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Feedback and Financial Incentives for Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Recent Experience Affects Delay Discounting: Evidence across Temporal Framing, Signs, and Magnitudes.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- White matter-based brain network topological properties associated with individual impulsivity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A hierarchical cluster analysis of young drivers based on their perceived risk and frequency of texting while driving.Journal of safety research · 2023Article
- Texting while driving: A discrete choice experiment.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2021Article
- Relationships between Driver Errors and Delay Discounting in a Simulated Driving Task.Perspectives on behavior science · 2020Article
- Excessive discounting of delayed reinforcers as a trans-disease process: Update on the state of the science.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Demand for Texting while Driving.The Psychological record · 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
- 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
- Texting while driving, executive function, and impulsivity in college students.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2017Article
- Physical and cognitive effort discounting across different reward magnitudes: Tests of discounting models.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine an impulsive decision-making process underlying texting while driving from a behavioral economic perspective. A sample of 108 college students completed a novel discounting task that presented participants with a hypothetical scenario in which, after receiving a text message while driving, they rated the likelihood of replying to a text message immediately versus waiting to reply for a specific period of time. Participants also completed a delay discounting task in which they made repeated hypothetical choices between obtaining a larger amount of money available after a delay and an equal or lesser amount of money available immediately. The results show that the duration of the delay is a critical variable that strongly determines whether participants choose to wait to reply to a text message, and that the decrease in the likelihood of waiting as a function of delay is best described by a hyperbolic delay discounting function. The results also show that participants who self-reported higher frequency of texting while driving discounted the opportunity to reply to a text message at greater rates, whereas there was no relation between the rates of discounting of hypothetical monetary rewards and the frequency of texting while driving. The results support the conclusion that texting while driving is fundamentally an impulsive choice.
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