As implicit cognitive processes garner more and more importance, studies in the fields of healthy psychology and organizational safety research have focused on attentional bias, a kind of selective allocation of attentional resources in the early stage of cognitive processing. However, few studies have explored the role of attentional bias on driving behavior. This study assessed drivers' attentional bias towards safety-related words (ABS) using the dot-probe paradigm and self-reported daily driving behaviors. The results revealed significant negative correlations between attentional bias scores and several indicators of dangerous driving. Drivers with fewer dangerous driving behaviors showed greater ABS. We also built a significant linear regression model between ABS and the total DDDI score, as well as ABS and the number of accidents. Finally, we discussed the possible mechanism underlying these associations and several limitations of our study. This study opens up a new topic for the exploration of implicit processes in driving safety research.
The relationship between attentional bias toward safety and driving behavior
Accident analysis & prevention ; 96 ; 22-28
2016
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Attentional bias toward safety predicts safety behaviors
Online Contents | 2014
|Relationship between Allowable Task Demand while Driving and Allocation of Attentional Resources
British Library Online Contents | 2016
|Attentional demand of automobile driving
Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
|Online Contents | 2014
Assessing the relationship between driving skill, driving behavior and driving aggressiveness
Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2022
|