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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 617-623Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0922-4
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Multi-tasking; Self-regulation; Self-awareness; Distracted driving
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- Mountain Plains Consortium, a regional University Transportation Center (UTC) - United States Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration
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Multitasking diminishes the self-awareness of performance that is often essential for self-regulation and self-knowledge. Participants drove in a simulator while either talking or not talking on a hands-free cell phone. Following previous research, participants who talked on a cell phone made more serious driving errors than control participants who did not use a phone while driving. Control participants' assessments of the safeness of their driving and general ability to drive safely while distracted were negatively correlated with the actual number of errors made when they were driving. By contrast, cell-phone participants' assessments of the safeness of their driving and confidence in their driving abilities were uncorrelated with their actual errors. Thus, talking on a cell phone not only diminished the safeness of participants' driving, it diminished their awareness of the safeness of their driving.
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