TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Group influences upon preferences for personal protection: A simulation study
JO  - Journal of safety research
A1  - Bradley, Graham L.
SP  - 99
EP  - 105
VL  - 26
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4375
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -