Control motivation and young drivers' decision making

Within the theoretical framework of control motivation, the effect of transient motivational variations (extrinsic to driving) on decision making in a simulated driving task was investigated. Young male drivers (mean age= 20.5 years), who were either novices or more experienced, participated in two experiments. In the first study (n = 45), the participants firstly carried out a reasoning task, extrinsic to driving, in which they randomly either failed (high control motivation), succeeded (low control motivation) or made aesthetic judgments with no evaluation in terms of success or failure (control group). Later, the participants had to decide whether to modify the given speed of a same vehicle for 38 driving situations presented in slide form. These situations were sorted into four categories according to the presence or absence of other road users and the presence or absence of an intersection. Compared with the control group, the participants of the failure group decide to make more speed changes as a f...

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