TUD Dresden University of Technology, Traffic and Transportation Psychology, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
J Safety Res. 2024 Jun;89:331-342. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2024.01.008. Epub 2024 Feb 2.
In many countries, a new road user group, e-scooter riders, share the existing cycling infrastructure. The study aimed to investigate if an individual's status as a cyclist or e-scooter rider affects their social identity and whether it results in ingroup favoritism or outgroup discrimination.
An online experiment involving 179 cyclists and 64 e-scooter riders was conducted, where they rated the behavior of ingroup or outgroup members in six traffic scenarios.
Participants rated dispositional attributions as more causally relevant than situational ones across all traffic scenarios. Cyclists and e-scooter riders were inclined to judge ingroup members' rule violations more harshly than those of outgroup members in terms of dispositional attribution ratings and punishment severity. For situational attributions, few indications of ingroup favoritism were observed for the e-scooter rider group.
Findings suggest initial indications of considerate coexistence, from the perspective of social identity theory, between the two modes of transport, supporting current regulations on the use of cycling infrastructure by e-scooter riders. Indications of ingroup discrimination, however, suggest that safety campaigning may target to promote courtesy within the cyclist and e-scooter rider groups.
在许多国家，新的道路使用者群体——电动滑板车使用者——与现有的自行车使用者共享基础设施。本研究旨在调查个体作为自行车使用者或电动滑板车使用者的身份是否会影响他们的社会认同，以及这是否会导致内群体偏好或外群体歧视。
进行了一项涉及 179 名自行车使用者和 64 名电动滑板车使用者的在线实验，他们在六个交通场景中对同组或外组成员的行为进行了评价。
在所有交通场景中，参与者都认为性格归因比情境归因更具因果关系。与外组成员相比，自行车使用者和电动滑板车使用者在性格归因评价和惩罚严厉程度上更倾向于认为同组成员的违规行为更严重。对于情境归因，电动滑板车使用者群体中几乎没有表现出对内群体的偏好。
这些发现表明，从社会认同理论的角度来看，两种交通方式之间存在着初步的、相互体谅的共存迹象，这支持了当前关于电动滑板车使用者使用自行车基础设施的规定。然而，内群体歧视的迹象表明，安全宣传活动可能需要针对自行车使用者和电动滑板车使用者群体来促进礼貌行为。
