How We Judge Drivers Differently Than Other People (And Why It’s Not Like We’re Killing Anyone)
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Have you ever noticed how we change our behaviour when we are behind the steering wheel of a car? This 1950 Disney video may look like an exaggeration, but only a slight one. In fact, Ian Walker and his colleagues put the hypothesis that we judge drivers differently than other people to the test with a series of questions. They asked 2,157 UK adults (so no petrolhead Germans or Americans…) to answer questions about behaviours, once framed as a driver of a car doing it and once framed as someone else doing it. It turns out that we are much more forgiving to drivers than to other people.
How We Judge Drivers Differently Than Other People (And Why It’s Not Like We’re Killing Anyone)
How We Judge Drivers Differently Than Other…
How We Judge Drivers Differently Than Other People (And Why It’s Not Like We’re Killing Anyone)
Have you ever noticed how we change our behaviour when we are behind the steering wheel of a car? This 1950 Disney video may look like an exaggeration, but only a slight one. In fact, Ian Walker and his colleagues put the hypothesis that we judge drivers differently than other people to the test with a series of questions. They asked 2,157 UK adults (so no petrolhead Germans or Americans…) to answer questions about behaviours, once framed as a driver of a car doing it and once framed as someone else doing it. It turns out that we are much more forgiving to drivers than to other people.