@article{ref1,
title="Associations between cognitive distortions in moral reasoning and self-reported traffic violations and crashes for different road user groups",
journal="Proceedings of the ... international driving symposium on human factors in driver assessment, training and vehicle design",
year="2019",
author="Roelofs, Erik and Hirsch, Pierro and Vissers, Jan",
volume="2019",
number="",
pages="377-383",
abstract="The use of self-serving cognitive distortions measured by traffic-role specific versions of the Cognitive Distortions in Driving (CDD) test was explored for three Dutch road user groups: cyclists beginning to learn to drive (LDs) who were enrolled in a pro-social driving program (n=138); young novice drivers enrolled in a safety awareness program (n=1660), and; experienced professional bus drivers enrolled in a post-licensing training program (871). Associations between cognitive distortions and selfreported traffic behavior, fines and crashes were analyzed. <br><br>RESULTS show that about 20 per cent of the young novice drivers used self-serving cognitive distortions, compared to 8 per cent of the LDs and 5 per cent of the bus drivers. In addition, use of cognitive distortions was significantly correlated with speed and traffic violations. Finally, a subgroup of cyclist LDs (n=38) who had been licensed for six months used fewer cognitive distortions when tested as drivers than the licensed young novice drivers without pro-social driver training. This shows that pro-social driver training can reduce cognitive distortions and may possibly increase safety.  Available: https://drivingassessment.uiowa.edu/sites/drivingassessment.uiowa.edu/files/da2019_58_roelofs_final.pdf<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}