{"id":79203,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/cognitive-mechanisms-associated-with-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","slug":"cognitive-mechanisms-associated-with-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/cognitive-mechanisms-associated-with-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive mechanisms associated with risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special risk factors associated with higher mental functions:<br \/>\n1) Risk perception \u2013 the driver&#8217;s assessment of the likelihood of an accident in a particular situation (e.g. overtaking on a narrow road or driving in bad weather).<br \/>\n2) Self-esteem \u2013 assessment of one&#8217;s ability to drive a vehicle and cope with difficulties (for example, braking skills, maneuverability).<br \/>\n3) Cognitive distortions \u2013 for example, the &#8220;illusion of superiority&#8221;, when the driver considers himself more experienced than others, or the &#8220;optimistic bias&#8221;, when he underestimates the likelihood of being exposed.<br \/>\n4) Cognitive balancing \u2013 comparing expectations of negative (accidents) and positive (quick arrival, avoidance of delays) results to make a final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special risk factors associated with higher mental functions: 1) Risk perception \u2013 the driver&#8217;s assessment of the likelihood of an accident in a particular situation (e.g. overtaking on a narrow road or driving in bad weather). 2) Self-esteem \u2013 assessment of one&#8217;s ability to drive a vehicle and cope with difficulties (for example, braking skills, [&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-79203","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\/79203","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=79203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}