The optimism bias and traffic accident risk perception

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 333-340

  DeJoy, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PEER GROUP; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0024711610     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(89)90024-9     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Exposure and experience are a confounded nuisance in research on driver behavior
2. Predisposing factors in the alcohol- and drug-impairment of young drivers' performance
3. Self-protective measures against workplace hazards
4. Perception of the risk of an accident by younger and older drivers
5. A conceptualization of driver behavior as threat avoidance
6. The health belief model: A decade later
7. Combs Judged frequency of lethal events
8. Age differences in male drivers' perception of accident risk: The role of perceived driving ability
9. Comparative perceptions of driver ability—a confirmation and expansion
10. The health belief model and preventive health behavior
11. Oerfarna forares beteende, presentations-formage och attityder
12. Are we all less risky and more skillful than our fellow drivers?
13. Perceived driving safety and seatbelt usage
14. Unrealistic optimism about future life events
15. Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems
16. Why it won't happen to me: Perceptions of risk factors and illness susceptibility
17. Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: Conclusions from a communitywide sample
18. Teenaged drivers and fatal crash responsibility