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dc.contributor.authorClaus, Bart
dc.contributor.authorWarlop, Luk
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-13T16:39:31Z
dc.date.available2023-09-13T16:39:31Z
dc.date.created2022-04-13T10:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn0168-7034
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3089282
dc.description.abstractCar traffic and accidents involving cars create an enormous societal cost, particularly in terms of negative consequences for public health. Mitigating these effects is a daily concern for public and private institutions and people around the world. At least a subset of accidents is attributable to the amount of risk drivers allow in their driving and in related behaviour like mobile phone use or substance abuse. Our study looks at the effect of car size on risk taking. While literature highlights several behavioural effects of car size, the direction of causality of these effects is not always clear, and empirical evidence is lacking. Two behavioural and consequential studies support that car size affects risk taking in driving and that this increase in risk taking generalizes to other domains as well. Based on these results and in line with literature showing that social stability and security can affect financial risk taking, we propose the “car cushion hypothesis.” This hypothesis suggests that bigger cars make people feel more secure, which affects their behaviour in terms of generalized risk taking. We discuss policy implications aimed at contributing to reducing the societal and public health cost of car trafficen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.subjectRisk takingen_US
dc.subjectTraffic fatalitiesen_US
dc.subjectCar trafficen_US
dc.subjectCar sizeen_US
dc.subjectCushion hypothesisen_US
dc.titleThe Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Dataen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Dataen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderSpringeren_US
dc.source.volume45en_US
dc.source.journalJournal of Consumer Policyen_US
dc.source.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10603-022-09511-w
dc.identifier.cristin2017147
cristin.ispublishedfalse
cristin.fulltextpostprint
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