TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The roles of delay and probability discounting in texting while driving: toward the development of a translational scientific program
JO  - Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
A1  - Hayashi, Yusuke
A1  - Fessler, Heather J.
A1  - Friedel, Jonathan E.
A1  - Foreman, Anne M.
A1  - Wirth, Oliver
SP  - 229
EP  - 242
VL  - 110
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-5002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jeab.460
ID  - ref1
ER  -