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Citation

Sándor B. Ind. Psychotech. 1931; 8: 233-248.

Vernacular Title

Die Reaktionzeiten des Menschen

Copyright

(Copyright © 1931, J. Springer)

DOI

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PMID

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Abstract

The article is available to HathiTrust partners / members. Other sources have not been identified (July 2015).



This article reviews the history of reaction time and explicitly linked this inherited characteristic, part of the "psychophysical constitution," to the new driver's tests with which governmental authorities were attempting to remove dangerous drivers from the roads.

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".


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