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Marie Claude Ouimet Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec (Canada) Marie Claude Ouimet, Ph.D., is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. She received a research career award (2010-2022) from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé. She is the director of the Réseau de recherche en sécurité routière du Québec (Quebec Research Network in Traffic Safety), which include Quebec researchers in traffic safety, decision makers, and research users. She is also the director of the Addiction Unit at Université de Sherbrooke. She is involved in North American committees on young drivers and impaired drivers. Her main research interests include intervention to reduce risk in young drivers and impaired drivers, risk markers and new technologies to evaluate and prevent risk. |
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Sensitivity to reward and punishment and young drivers’ self-reported risky behaviors and driving records Many prevention and remediation programs aimed at curbing risky driving behaviors presume that fear of punishment (e.g., demerit points, fines) is the only effective mechanism. Meanwhile, the principle of sensitivity to reward can exert a powerful effect on behavior but is rarely used to modify risky driving behaviors. Most studies of sensitivity to reward and punishment in the literature have been limited to exclusively using self-reported behaviors in cross-sectional study design, ignoring more objective data contained in driving records and prospective study design. The goal of this presentation is to examine relationships between sensitivity to reward and punishment, self-reported driving behaviors, and driving records in young drivers. |
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