The first meeting of the Committee on Contributions from the Behavioral & Social Sciences in Reducing and Preventing Teen Motor Crashes was held on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. The meeting took place in room 205 of the National Academies' Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Agenda for the Open Session
11:00 am Welcome, Introductions, and Overview of Open Session (Bob Graham, Committee Chair)
- Review statement of task
- Describe purpose of workshop
11:15 am Sponsor Perspectives (Bruce Simons-Morton, NICHD; Ruth Shults, CDC; and John Nepomuceno, State Farm Insurance Companies)
- Background to the issue
- Areas of intervention
- Interests in and goals for the study
12:00 pm Lunch
12:45 pm State of the Science (Allan Williams and Dan Mayhew, Committee Members)
- Crash statistics
- Driving risk factors
- Questions and discussion
1:15 pm Cognitive and Behavioral Issue Discussion (Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Committee Members)
- Possible areas of general wisdom (e.g., risk-taking, peer influences, adolescent attitudes, parent relations)
- Potentially relevant perspectives (e.g., brain development, sleep deprivation, risk perception, decision-making)
- Committee discussion
1:45 pm Continued Discussion
- Workshop topics
- Possible speakers
- Possible commissioned papers
- Other guests
3:30 pm Open Session Adjourns