Cell phone use diminishes self-awareness of the adverse effects of cell phone use on driving.

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• Creators:
  Sanbonmatsu, David M. ; Strayer, David L. ; Behrends, Arwen A. ; Moore, Shannon M.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Utah
• Corporate Contributors:
  Mountain Plains Consortium ; University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Cellular telephones
  • Smartphones
  • Attitudes
  • Behavior
  • Risk taking
  • Driver distraction
  • Driver errors
• Publication/ Report Number:
  MPC 17-322
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Multitasking may diminish the self-awareness of performance that is often essential for self-regulation ; and self-knowledge. Participants in an experiment drove on a simulator while talking or not talking on a ; cell phone. The errors they made while driving were recorded. Following previous research, participants ; who talked on a cell phone made more serious driving errors than no cell phone participants. No cell ; phone participants’ assessments of the safeness of their driving and general ability to drive safely while ; distracted were negatively correlated with the actual number of errors they made driving. Hence, more ; errors were associated with more negative self-assessments. In contrast, cell phone participants’ ; assessments of the safeness of their driving and confidence in their driving abilities were uncorrelated ; with their actual errors. Thus, talking on a cell phone not only diminished the safeness of participants’ ; driving, it diminished their awareness of the safeness of their driving.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32198/dot_32198_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 448.41 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e1bf7e049c43a2f0e31a11fcd69cdace8933113cca6c606290ba65e52b4bcce2