%0 Journal Article %T A model for the role of motivational factors in drivers' decision-making %J Accident analysis and prevention %D 1974 %A Naatanen, R. %A Summala, Heikki %V 6 %N 3-4 %P 243-261 %X A new model for the motivational factors in decision-making processes undergone by drivers is introduced. It emphasizes the competition between the driver's desire to perform a certain act--induced by (excitatory) motives--in a certain traffic situation and the subjective risk associated with this desire. The import of this model to traffic-safety work lies in its emphasis on what the driver actually does in any given traffic situation rather than on his driving skill and or the traffic conditions as such.

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