Driving on the edge: The motivational factors of risk-taking among teen drivers

Psychology of Risk-Taking

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-138

  Prato, Carlo Giacomo ^a   Kaplan, Sigal ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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