Texting while driving as impulsive choice: A behavioral economic analysis
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The goal of the present study was to examine the utility of a behavioral economic analysis to investigate the role of delay discounting in texting while driving. A sample of 147 college students completed a survey to assess how frequently they send and read text messages while driving. Based on this information, students were assigned to one of two groups: 19 students who frequently text while driving and 19 matched-control students who infrequently text while driving but were similar in gender, age, years of education, and years driving. The groups were compared on the extent to which they discounted, or devalued, delayed hypothetical monetary rewards using a delay-discounting task. In this task, students made repeated choices between $1000 available after a delay (ranging from 1 week to 10 years) and an equal or lesser amount of money available immediately. The results show that the students who frequently text while driving discounted delayed rewards at a greater rate than the matched control students. The study supports the conclusions that texting while driving is fundamentally an impulsive choice made by drivers, and that a behavioral economic approach may be a useful research tool for investigating the decision-making processes underlying risky behaviors.
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Individuals highly sensitive to rewards or impulsive tend to engage in risky behaviors such as texting on cell phones while driving.
“Evidence indicates that individuals, who are highly sensitive to rewards or impulsive, have a tendency to engage in risky behaviors such as texting on their cell phones while driving (Hayashi et al., 2015; Pearson et al., 2013).”
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The Discussion (page not provided) reports that college students who frequently text while driving were more impulsive as measured by delay discounting. The paper does not establish that people highly sensitive to rewards are more likely to text while driving, and its student sample does not support extending the finding to individuals generally. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Hayashi, Y., Russo, C. T., & Wirth, O.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hayashi, Yusuke
- Venue
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 83
- Pages
- 182-189
- ISSN
- 0001-4575 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4604567
- OpenAlex
- W1924077383
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 5.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Accident Analysis & Prevention (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Pennsylvania State University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Traffic and Road Safety
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Keywords
- texting while driving, delay discounting, impulsive choice, behavioral economics, risky driving behavior, delayed rewards, decision-making, university students
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Automobile Driving, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reward, Students, Young Adult, Text Messaging, Economics, Behavioral, Delay Discounting
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