A Study Of The Mental Mechanisms Which Lead People To Develop Risk Conducts That Are Used When Driving, Practicing Sex And Taking Drugs / Medical News Today, 14 October 2007
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/85450.php
"Which are the mental mechanisms leading people to develop risk conducts such as illegal overtaking manoeuvres, practicing unsafe sex or to consume drugs knowing the consequences? Such is the aim of a group of scientists of the Department of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour from the University of Granada (UGR) who are working on the project "Risk Behaviour: Cognitive, Emotional and Neuropsychological Foundations" (El comportamiento de riesgo: bases cognitivas, emocionales y neuropsicologicas), and which is subsidised with € 193,000 from the Project of Excellence of the Regional Government of Andalusia. A total of 13 researchers are participating in this study through which it will be possible to measure variables which have never been analysed before in this context (such as the cerebral activity) to predict and modify risk behaviours."