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This research was undertaken to explore how the safety margin influenced the occurrence of the risk-taking behavior that violated the rules through an experiment where the participants were required to carry out a go-around task in which a simulated railroad crossing was included. Three levels of the waiting time for the train coming with the flashing light signal at the crossing were settled as the safety margins. The results of the experiment suggested that the large safety margin might cause to make the subjective probability of the failure of the violation and the subjective probability of receiving punishment for the violation decreased and the tendency toward the violation. The results of the simulation suggested that the violation occurrence could be explained by the expected utility theory.
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Karashima, M., Nishiguchi, H. (2013). Influence of the Safety Margin on Behavior that Violates Rules. In: Yamamoto, S. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction for Health, Safety, Mobility and Complex Environments. HIMI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39215-3_57
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