@article{ref1,
title="Group influences upon preferences for personal protection: A simulation study",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="1995",
author="Bradley, Graham L.",
volume="26",
number="2",
pages="99-105",
abstract="To explore the possible influences that work groups have upon their members' safety-related behavior, this research simulated small-group discussions of an industrial safety issue. The experimental task required the 96 subjects to select, from a range of seven graded options, the level of personal protection they wished to adopt while performing a series of mechanical operations under adverse conditions. Subjects made their own private selections of personal protection, contributed to a group consensus selection, and then made a final private selection. As predicted, subjects' preferred self-protective behaviors shifted after group discussion, becoming simultaneously more risky, more homogenous, and more confident. However, little support was obtained for a hypothesized polarization of preferences following group interaction.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}