The Library
The hazards of perception : evaluating a change blindness demonstration within a real-world driver education course
Tools
Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A., Norman, Danielle and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) The hazards of perception : evaluating a change blindness demonstration within a real-world driver education course. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4 . 15. doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4 ISSN 2365-7464.
|
PDF
WRAP-hazards-perception-change-blindness-real-Norman-2019.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (1340Kb) | Preview |
|
PDF
WRAP-hazards-perception-evaluating-change-blindness-driver-education-Kunar-2019.pdf - Accepted Version Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (1748Kb) |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4
Abstract
Overconfidence in one’s driving ability can lead to risky decision-making and may therefore increase the accident risk. When educating people about the risks of their driving behavior, it is all too easy for individuals to assume that the message is not meant for them and so can be ignored. In this study we developed and assessed the effect of a road safety demonstration based around the phenomenon of change blindness within a real-world Driver Awareness Course. We collected quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate the effectiveness of the demonstration in both a police-led environment (Experiment 1) and a laboratory environment (Experiment 2). We also compared the change blindness intervention to two control tasks. The results showed that participants’ self-reported ability to spot important visual changes was reduced after the change blindness demonstration in both experiments, but was not reduced after participation in the control tasks of Experiment 2. Furthermore, participants described the change blindness demonstrations positively and would recommend that they were shown more widely.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
|||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Motor vehicle driving, Motor vehicle drivers -- Attitudes, Automobile driver education, Change blindness, Behavior modification, Perception | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications | |||||||||
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | |||||||||
ISSN: | 2365-7464 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 21 May 2019 | |||||||||
Dates: |
|
|||||||||
Volume: | 4 | |||||||||
Article Number: | 15 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 April 2019 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2019 | |||||||||
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
|||||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year