Mindfulness, characterized by present-moment awareness and nonreactive attentional control, has increasingly been examined as a psychological factor associated with safer driving behavior. This is important because motor vehicle crashes remain a significant public health and transportation safety concern, with distracted and aggressive driving linked to attentional lapses, mind-wandering, and...
Road traffic crashes are currently one of the main causes of deaths in the world and many efforts have been made to develop effective interventions to reduce them. Mindfulness has risen as a method for improving mental and physical well-being and has been hypothesized as potentially beneficial for driving performance. This has led to some commercial ventures based on such hypothesis, despite...