{"id":78917,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/psychological-mechanisms-in-the-theory-of-risky-behavior\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:31","slug":"psychological-mechanisms-in-the-theory-of-risky-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/psychological-mechanisms-in-the-theory-of-risky-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Mechanisms in the Theory of Risky Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>important psychological aspects of the concept:<br \/>\n1) Subjective perception of risk. Each driver has his or her own unique &#8220;perception threshold&#8221; that determines the level of risk that is acceptable to them.<br \/>\n2) Behavioral compensation. When a driver feels that the environment has become safer, they subconsciously adjust their behavior towards greater risk in order to maintain a level of difficulty that they perceive as normal.<br \/>\n3) Self-regulation of risk. Includes a balance between the pursuit of efficiency, speed and convenience on the one hand, and the avoidance of extreme risk on the other.<br \/>\n4) Personal and social factors. The desire for thrills, social pressures and cultural characteristics of driving affect the level of risk.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>important psychological aspects of the concept: 1) Subjective perception of risk. Each driver has his or her own unique &#8220;perception threshold&#8221; that determines the level of risk that is acceptable to them. 2) Behavioral compensation. When a driver feels that the environment has become safer, they subconsciously adjust their behavior towards greater risk in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}