“…Signals for potentially hazardous information in the environment, for example a backup warning alarm, initially evoke regular checking behavior, but such orienting rapidly declines with consistent exposure in the absence of negative outcomes, until the potential threats go completely unchecked. Threat habituation provides a model for patterns of behavior observed in actual workplace settings (Lee & Kim, 2022; Weyman & Clarke, 2003) and can be rigorously measured when individuals perform work tasks in an experimentally controlled virtual environment (Kim, Anderson, et al, 2021; Kim, Gregoire, et al, 2023; Kim, Yan, et al, 2023).…”