Cell phone use diminishes self-awareness of the adverse effects of cell phone use on driving.
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2017-03-01
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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.
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