Driver Distraction Research Verbal tasks presented while participants operate a driving simulator—bilingual participants compared to unilingual participants. Quantitative tasks presented while participants operate a driving simulator. Bilinguals compared to unilinguals Telner, J. & Wiesenthal, D. L. Bialystok, E., & York, M. The Effects of Second Language Cellular Telephone Conversations on Simulated Driving. Talk presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists, Toronto, ON, October 17, 2007.

The Cognitive Failures Model Explaining Driver Faults Dual process models from the cognitive literature have proposed a taxonomy of cognitive failures in everyday activities, and this novel approach was applied to understanding driver behaviour. Wickens, C.M., Toplak, M.E. & Wiesenthal, D.L. (in press, Accident Analysis & Prevention). Heuristic and analytic processes as predictors of Driving Errors, Lapses, and Violations.

Narcissism, Driver Attributions and Aggressive Driving Support for a relationship between attributions, anger and behavioral reactions. Positive correlations were found between attributions, level of anger and driver aggression. Trait narcissism was associated significantly with elevated scores on the Driving Vengeance Questionnaire for both men and women Lustman, M., Wiesenthal, D. L. & Flett, G. L. (under editorial review), Narcissism and Aggressive Driving: Is an Inflated View of the Self a Road Hazard?

Evolutionary Psychology as a Model for Driver Risk An archival analysis of Canadian demographic data demonstrated that driver injuries, fatalities and drunk-driving could be explained by evolutionary psychology principles Wiesenthal, D. L. & Singhal, D. Evolutionary Psychology, Demography and Vehicle Crashes: A Theoretical Synthesis. Invited presentation, Xth European Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, July