Journal article
Linking Decisions and Actions in Dynamic Environments: How Child and Adult Cyclists Cross Roads With Traffic
Ecological psychology, Vol.26(1-2), pp.125-133
04/03/2014
DOI: 10.1080/10407413.2014.874933
PMCID: PMC4039083
PMID: 24891809
Abstract
Unlike affordances involving stationary objects, affordances involving moving objects change over time. This means that actions must be tightly linked to decisions, making perceiving and acting on affordances involving moving objects challenging for children and adults alike. Here, we overview our program of research on how children and adults perceive and act on moving objects in the context of bicycling across roads in an immersive virtual environment. This work shows that although children attempt to adjust their actions to fit their risky decisions, they do not fully adjust their decisions to fit their action capabilities. This mismatch between child cyclists' decisions and actions may be a risk factor for car-bicycle collisions in late childhood and early adolescence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Linking Decisions and Actions in Dynamic Environments: How Child and Adult Cyclists Cross Roads With Traffic
- Creators
- Jodie M Plumert - Department of Psychology University of IowaJoseph K Kearney - Department of Psychology University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ecological psychology, Vol.26(1-2), pp.125-133
- DOI
- 10.1080/10407413.2014.874933
- PMID
- 24891809
- PMCID
- PMC4039083
- NLM abbreviation
- Ecol Psychol
- ISSN
- 1040-7413
- eISSN
- 1532-6969
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/03/2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984213400402771
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