Different risk thresholds in pedestrian road crossing behaviour: A comparison of French and Japanese approaches

Sueur, Cédric; Class, Barbara; Hamm, Charlène; Meyer, Xavier; Péle, Marie

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2013.04.027

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“…This difference between France and Japan was already noted in our first study of pedestrians crossing the road alone [17]. However, the same study revealed that the rate of illegal crossings when pedestrians were not located close to other people was 67% in France and 6.9% in Japan.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…This scoring duration is sufficiently ample to provide a large dataset [8,17,31]. Video cameras were set up in order to score the light colour and were placed in locations ensuring that crossing pedestrians were visible at all times.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Strong differences were observed between French and Japanese citizens in our previous study of cultural differences for single pedestrians (i.e. excluding couples or groups) crossing at safe or unsafe sites [17]. Here we studied the collective road-crossing behaviours of pedestrians between these same two different countries with very different cultures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Young and old people seem to break pedestrian rules more often and show more risky behaviour than middle-aged people [19,20], but this depends on the situation (alone at the kerb, whether crossing points are signalled or not, etc. [17]). Risky behaviours in senior citizens seem to vary according to the decline of their perception and mobility.…”

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Cultural influence of social information use in pedestrian road-crossing behaviours

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Bellut

Debergue

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Social information use is common in a wide range of group-living animals, notably in humans. The role it plays in decision-making could be a key to understanding how social groups make collective decisions. The observation of road-crossing behaviours in the presence of other individuals is an ideal means to study the influence of social information on decision-making. This study investigated the influence of culture on social information used by pedestrians in a potentially dangerous scenario, namely road crossing. We scored the collective crossing of pedestrians at four locations in Nagoya (Japan) and three locations in Strasbourg (France). French pedestrians cross against the lights much more often (41.9%) than Japanese ones (2.1%). Individuals deciding to cross the road were strongly influenced by the behaviour and the presence of other pedestrians, especially in Japan, where a stronger conformism was noted. However, Japanese pedestrians were half as likely to be influenced by social information as their French counterparts when crossing at the red light, as they were more respectful of rules. Men show riskier behaviour than women (40.6% versus 25.7% of rule-breaking, respectively), deciding quickly and setting off earlier than women. Further related studies could help target specific preventive, culture-specific solutions for pedestrian safety.

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“…For instance, risk perception in street crossing may depend on the presence of other pedestrians. Zhou, Horrey, and Yu (2009) and Sueur, Class, Hamm, Meyer, and Pelé (2013) provide evidence that conformity tendencies and cultural differences influence the effect of others' presence on pedestrian crossing behaviour. Hamed (2001) find that road-crossing time decreases as the number of pedestrians attending to cross increases.…”

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Risk Taking and Social Exposure

2013

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Abstract. The paper examines in the laboratory how risk-taking situations are affected by the conditions of observing other's choices (observer) and being observed by others (source). By extending Yechiam et al.'s (2008) experimental design to the domain of gains we find that observers are more probable than sources to choose risky alternatives producing rare gains than equiprobable gains. The impact of social exposure is also analyzed and interpreted in the context of personality traits to assess how heterogeneity influences risky decisions.JEL Classification: C91, D01, D81.

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Social network and decision-making in primates: a report on Franco-Japanese research collaborations

Sueur

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2015

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Sociality is suggested to evolve as a strategy for animals to cope with challenges in their environment. Within a population, each individual can be seen as part of a network of social interactions that vary in strength, type and dynamics (Sueur et al. 2011a). The structure of this social network can strongly impact upon not only on the fitness of individuals and their decision-making, but also on the ecology of populations and the evolution of a species. Our Franco-Japanese collaboration allowed us to study social networks in several species (Japanese macaques, chimpanzees, colobines, etc.) and on different topics (social epidemiology, social evolution, information transmission). Individual attributes such as stress, rank or age can affect how individuals take decisions and the structure of the social network. This heterogeneity is linked to the assortativity of individuals and to the efficiency of the flow within a network. It is important, therefore, that this heterogeneity is integrated in the process or pattern under study in order to provide a better resolution of investigation and, ultimately, a better understanding of behavioural strategies, social dynamics and social evolution. How social information affects decision-making could be important to understand how social groups make collective decisions and how information may spread throughout the social group. In human beings, road-crossing behaviours in the presence of other individuals is a good way to study the influence of social information on individual behaviour and decision-making, for instance. Culture directly affects which information - personal vs social - individuals prefer to follow. Our collaboration contributed to the understanding of the relative influence of different factors, cultural and ecological, on primate, including human, sociality.

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Different risk thresholds in pedestrian road crossing behaviour: A comparison of French and Japanese approaches

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Cultural influence of social information use in pedestrian road-crossing behaviours

Cultural influence of social information use in pedestrian road-crossing behaviours

Risk Taking and Social Exposure

Social network and decision-making in primates: a report on Franco-Japanese research collaborations

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