Een vervolgstudie naar sociale vergevingsgezindheid : verschillende uitingen van sociale vergevingsgezindheid en de effecten van rijervaring en geregeldheid van de setting.

A follow-up study into social forgivingness; The different ways of expressing social forgivingness and the effects of driving experience and regulation of the setting. Social forgivingness refers to the role of road users in the prevention of crashes. The principle is defined as 'The willingness to anticipate a potentially unsafe action by another road user and to act in such a way that negative consequences of the potentially unsafe action are prevented or at least limited' (Houtenbos, 2009). Even in a well developed traffic system road users commit errors and unsafe actions. Other road users can compensate for these unsafe actions by a socially forgiving reaction: anticipating the behaviour of others, offering each other enough space, and allowing for others, so that unsafe situations are prevented, or the consequences are less serious. This study is aimed at finding out more about how this principle functions; among other things which behaviour can precisely be seen to be socially forgiving and how does this behaviour come into being. This knowledge can help to determine how socially forgiving behaviour can be stimulated. The study is a continuation of a questionnaire study by Stelling et al. (2010). This study used a number of filmed traffic scenarios in which staged dilemmas were meant to provoke a socially forgiving reaction. The respondents were asked to answer closed and open questions about some aspects of their driving behaviour in the presented scenarios. Stelling et al. (2010) reported the results of the closed questions about speed choice, and speed and position adaptation. Both the indications in that report and the definition of the principle suggest that social forgivingness is shown in different ways: not only reactions aimed at actions to prevent a crash or injury (like reducing speed), but also reactions that relate to anticipation of an other road user's unsafe action. The present report therefore focuses at the spectre of expressions of social forgivingness. Furthermore, the considerations and motives were studied that play a role in whether or not to react socially forgiving. A traffic dilemma was used to investigate the role of driving experience and the extent to which the setting was regulated. The purpose of the present study is to trace possible links between factors and to find leads for future research. This will be done using the answers to the open questions in the questionnaire study about other possible reactions and the motivation for these reactions.