@article{ref1,
title="The roles of delay and probability discounting in texting while driving: toward the development of a translational scientific program",
journal="Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior",
year="2018",
author="Hayashi, Yusuke and Fessler, Heather J. and Friedel, Jonathan E. and Foreman, Anne M. and Wirth, Oliver",
volume="110",
number="2",
pages="229-242",
abstract="A sample of 109 college students completed a survey to assess how frequently they send or read text messages while driving. In a novel discounting task with a hypothetical scenario in which participants receive a text message while driving, they rated the likelihood of replying to a text message immediately versus waiting to reply until arriving at a destination. The scenario presented several delays to a destination and probabilities of a motor vehicle crash. The likelihood of waiting to reply decreased as a function of both the delay until the destination and the probability of a motor vehicle crash. Self-reported higher frequencies of texting while driving were associated with greater rates of both delay and probability discounting. The degree of delay discounting was altered as a function of the probability of a motor vehicle crash and vice versa. These results suggest that both delay and probability discounting are important underlying mechanisms of drivers' decision to text while driving.<br><br>© 2018 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-5002",
doi="10.1002/jeab.460",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jeab.460"
}