Emotionally involving telephone conversations lead to driver error and visual tunnelling

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 313-323

  Briggs, Gemma F ^a   Hole, Graham J ^b   Land, Michael F ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Cognitive workload; Driving; Dual tasking; Perception

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; DRIVING; DUAL TASKING;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 79954601653     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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