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Southern California Research Institute |
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SCRI examines how human performance is affected by pharmacological, physical, and psychosocial variables |
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Age and Driving |
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Type of research questions How are driving performance and behavior affected by age? Can simulator training help young drivers? |
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Recent papers Age-related changes in the ability to monitor the Automated assessment and training of novice drivers [+] |
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Cultural Differences |
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Type of research questions What are the differences in drinking and drinking and driving between different racial, ethnic, and social groups? What are the mechanisms that are related to those differences? |
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Recent papers Drinking and driving among high-risk young Mexican-American men [+] Drinking and driving among Mexican American and non-Hispanic White Males in Long Beach, California [+] |
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Alcohol |
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Type of research questions What are the effects of alcohol on human performance and driving? At what BACs does the risk of crash become statistically significant? |
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Recent papers The Long Beach/Fort Lauderdale Relative Risk Study [+] Manual versus automatic sampling variations of a preliminary alcohol screening device [+] |
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Sobriety Tests |
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Type of research questions Are standardized sobriety tests a useful tool in detecting drivers/boaters with BACs of .08% and above? |
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Recent papers The robustness of the horizontal gaze nystagmus test [+] An overview of field sobriety test research [+] |
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