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A program of research in “highway hypnosis” a preliminary report∗

✍ Scribed by Ronald E. Shor; Richard I. Thackray

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1970
Tongue
English
Weight
385 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0001-4575

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✦ Synopsis

HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS" is the tendency for an automobile driver to become drowsy and to fall asleep during monotonous, uneventful highway travel (Lauer, 1960;Seashore, 1946; Shor, 1959;Williams, 1963). Distraction and stress, while disruptive of driving behavior under some conditions, appear to vitiate the "highway hypnosis" phenomenon. Little definitive is known about the phenomenon beyond its undoubted occurrence. Moseley (1953) has presented reports of hallucinatory experiences accompanying it. Theorists have supposed that "highway hypnosis" may be related to traditional hypnosis and to Pavlovian transmarginal inhibition.

Aircraft pilots are also susceptible to the phenomenon (

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