The 29th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention 2017 (May 25-28, 2017) in Boston, MA, USA.
Oehl, M., Stein, J., & Sutter, C. (2017, May). Handedness Sometimes Matters: Performance Differences When Controlling Integrated Input Devices for Automotive Human-Machine Interfaces. Poster presented at the 29th Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Boston, USA.
Read More
Fear of job loss to automation is growing, with each announcement of exciting technological progress generating a backlash from those who could end up unemployed because of it. Amazon Go is eliminating the need for cashiers. Self-driving vehicles won’t need truckers and cabbies at their wheels. Artificial intelligence is beginning to diagnose disease, perform surgery, and even write films and articles. No job is safe forever, and we’re constantly being reminded of it, with little to no reassurance about what we’ll all do when computers and robots are running the world. A report released last week by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) offers some reprieve, bringing three pieces of welcome news.
[…]
Read More
In 1968, psychological scientists Anthony Doob and APS Fellow Alan E. Gross came across an interesting finding: People were quicker to honk their horns when they were stuck behind a clunker rather than a newer, more expensive “high status” car. Since then, several other studies have found that drivers of more expensive vehicles are more likely to behave like jerks, cutting in line at four-way stops and failing to stop for pedestrians. In a more recent study, psychological scientists Amanda N. Stephens (Monash University) and John A. Groeger (University of Hull) found further evidence that social status plays a role in people’s willingness to vent their anger at other drivers.
[…]
Doob, A. N., & Gross, A. E. (1968). Status of frustrator as an inhibitor of horn-honking responses. The Journal of Social Psychology, 76(2), 213-218.
Stephens, A. N., & Groeger, J. A. (2014). Following slower drivers: Lead driver status moderates driver’s anger and behavioural responses and exonerates culpability. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 22, 140-149. Doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2013.11.005
Read MoreIn 1995, Stanford University psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson completed a series of groundbreaking experiments showing that evoking negative stereotypes about a group can actually undermine the performance of people in that group — a phenomenon known as stereotype threat. Steele and Aronson’s research demonstrated that even subtle reminders of negative stereotypes about race and intelligence could derail students’ performance on standardized tests. Similarly, new research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that negative stereotypes about older drivers may hinder their performance behind the wheel.
[…]
Lambert, A. E., Watson, J. M., Stefanucci, J. K., Ward, N., Bakdash, J. Z., & Strayer, D. L. (2015). Stereotype Threat Impairs Older Adult Driving. Applied Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3162
Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African-Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 797-811. Doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.69.5.797
Read MoreDie Debatte um Fahrtests für Senioren wird schon seit Jahren hitzig geführt, nun hat sich eine gewichtige Stimme zu Wort gemeldet: Unfallforscher der deutschen Versicherer erwarten, dass Testfahrten für Autofahrer im Seniorenalter auf lange Sicht verpflichtend eingeführt werden.
[…]
„Vielen Älteren mangelt es an Selbsterkenntnis“. Senioren ab 75 Jahre verursachen im Straßenverkehr mehr Unfälle selbst als sogar Fahranfänger. Experte Siegfried Brockmann fordert daher verpflichtende Fahrtests für Senioren. Konsequenzen sollen die Ergebnisse jedoch nicht haben. Warum sie dennoch nützlich sind, erklärt der Leiter der Unfallforschung der Versicherer im Interview.
[…]Read More
Ab wann muss nach dem Konsum von Alkohol bei einem Fahrradfahrer von „absoluter Fahruntüchtigkeit“ ausgegangen werden? Bislang liegt der Wert dafür bei 1,6 Promille und wurde vor mehreren Jahren durch die Rechtsprechung auf Grundlage von Versuchen mit Probanden in den achtziger Jahren festgelegt. Mit einem von der Unfallforschung der Versicherer (UDV) initiierten Forschungsprojekt, das vom Institut für Rechtsmedizin des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf bearbeitet wurde, sollte dieser Grenzwert mittels neuer, realistischerer Probandenversuche auf den Prüfstand gestellt werden.
[…]
Read More
The 2017 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017) will take place in Vienna, Austria, March 6–9, 2017.
Tschöpe, N., Reiser, J. E., & Oehl, M. (2017, March). Exploring the Uncanny Valley Effect in Social Robotics. Paper presented at the 12th Annual ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction – HRI 2017, Vienna, Austria.
Read More
In a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Mark Horswill (The University of Queensland) provides an overview of promising research suggesting that it may be possible to speed up the learning process of hazard perception, potentially preventing thousands of accidents each year.
[…] Read More‚Twenty years of cultural research that my colleagues and I (Qi WANG) have done on the development of social cognition, including autobiographical memory, future thinking, the self, and emotion knowledge, illustrate how cultural psychological science can provide unique insights into psychological processes and further equip researchers with additional tools to understand human behavior. There are five assumptions that often distract or discourage researchers from integrating cultural factors into their work, and I aim here to deconstruct them.‘
[…]
Read More
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Transportation Systems | HMI Group
Lilienthalplatz 7
38108 Braunschweig, Germany