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Risk Compensation (context-dependent)
People may sometimes adjust behaviour after a safety measure changes perceived risk, but compensation can be absent, partial or outweighed by the measure’s protection and must be tested in the specific system.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Bicycle Helmets and Risky Behaviour: A Systematic Review
Research-assisted source review
- What it supports
- Eighteen studies did not support risk compensation, three were mixed and two supportive studies came from the same laboratory; ten associated helmet use with safer behaviour.
- Where it may not transfer
- Heterogeneous outcomes and designs prevented a pooled estimate. Voluntary helmet use is confounded by safety orientation, and null association does not rule out adaptation within individuals or in other domains.
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