The effect of music tempo was investigated to determine its effects on risk taking onroadways and performance in a driving simulator. Eighty participants completed ademographic questionnaire about driving history and then were put into 1 of 4 musicconditions: no music (control), slow tempo, medium tempo and high tempo. Participantswere then tested using two measures of risky driving behaviour: the Vienna Risk-TakingTest Traffic (WRBTV, a subtest of the Vienna Test System (a computer based drivingprogram that measure’s risk taking based on reaction times) and DriveSim, a computerbaseddriving simulator. As predicted on the WRBTV, significant differences betweenthe control group of no music and some of the tempo conditions were obtained with risktakingincreasing as music tempo increased. The DriveSim simulator found significantdifferences indicating that speeding was lower in the slower tempo group compared tothe medium tempo condition.
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