How to keep Children Safe in Traffic: Find the Daredevils Early

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 249-260

  Hoffrage, Ulrich ^a   Weber, Angelika ^b   Hertwig, Ralph ^c   Chase, Valerie M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RISK-TAKING; SAFETY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0346361728     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.9.4.249     Document Type: Article

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