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Title: | Aging and decision making: Driving-related problem solving. |
Journal: | Human Factors
1997 : SEP, VOL. 39:3, p. 438-444 |
Index terms: | DECISION MAKING AGEING TRAFFIC |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The authors examine age-related effects on decision making in a task environment familiar to most younger and older adults. Participants made route-selection decisions in real time. Participants received information about traffic density and expected speed limits of main and alternative routes, from which they determined the optimality of their present route versus alternative routes. The experiment evaluated the effects of information type, amount of congestion, alternative route speed limit, and age on speed and quality of decision making. Measures of optimal route selection revealed main effects of alternative route speed limit, congestion level, and message type, but there was not a main effect of age, and age did not interact with any variable. The data are interpreted in relation to previous data examining everyday pronlem solving and aging. route speed limit, congestion level, and message type, but there was not a main effect of |
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