Vaclav Linkov

• PhD
• Researcher at Transport Research Centre

This monograph deals with the computer analysis of Chinese text and the use of the LIWC program in this analysis. The first chapter describes the process of automatic text analysis and provides examples of research in Czech. The second chapter describes the LIWC program, the variables it measures, the Chinese version of the program, and its use in...

In the present theoretical paper, the current body of knowledge regarding the use of wearable virtual reality (VR) technologies for traffic psychological examination (TPE) is introduced, critically discussed and a specific application is suggested. The combination of wearable head-mounted displays for VR with an interactive and cost-effective hapti...

Phenomena in the world we study can often be described by various mathematical structures. If a psychologist who studies human behavior takes a realist position, they should not choose a mathematical structure that represents this behavior without examination as to whether the phenomenon could be represented by this structure, but they should event...

This study reviews the current information concerning the measurement of the situation awareness (SA) of the teleoperated drivers of remotely controlled cars. The teleoperated drivers who drive these cars are in a remote location, and they control the cars through a communication interface. The objective methods with probes are beneficial in measur...

Current scientometric indexes do not encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in academic texts and researchers are not motivated to cite texts written in smaller languages. This diminishes the cultural diversity of the sources cited and limits the representation of small and indigenous cultures. This text proposes a scientometric measur...

Driving a vehicle is a complex task influenced by many factors, including cultural differences. When a driver with a certain cultural background drives in a foreign environment, their natural reaction to traffic situations might be unsuitable, so they can make a mistake in the comprehension of a traffic situation or in their reaction. In this chapt...

Indigenous psychologies study local phenomena through concepts and terminology native to people in the given culture in order to provide a deeper understanding of the local culture. Indigenous psychologies began to spread in 1970 s in various non-western countries. Chinese indigenous psychology began as a movement for liberating psychology in Chine...

Using the speed of professional truck drivers, the effectiveness of speed limit signs was compared for 1) a temporary variable-message sign that uses LED technology and displays the current speed limit (hereinafter “VSL sign”) and 2) a normal vertical road sign with retroreflective sheeting (hereinafter “ordinary sign”). Measurements were made at t...

Background: Allowing contraflow cycling on one-way streets has been reported to reduce crash risks in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Similarly, walking against traffic on roadways without sidewalks substantially improves pedestrian safety. This study examined fatalities and head injuries sustained by pedestrians in against-traffic and with-traffi...

Objectives Sun glare is a serious driving hazard and increases crash risks. Relatively few studies have examined the effects of sun glare on pedestrian fatalities, given that a crash has occurred. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effect of sun glare on pedestrian fatalities. Design A population-based case–control study....

The first aid is an important tool to save people’s lives after traffic accidents. Drivers are the most-likely bystanders, who might help injured people at the traffic accident site. The current research aims to explore Czech learner drivers‘ knowledge and attitudes towards the first aid and to evaluate whether the first aid education increases the...

The aim of this presentation is (1) to define the skills necessary to control the driving of an autonomous vehicle; (2) skills needed to tackle the errors and failures of an autonomous vehicle and (3) to propose the operationalization of these skills. The view on driving skills decrease is built on the theoretical hierarchical model of driving beha...

The cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is an important emerging area of research in traffic safety. Because human failure is the most common reason for a successful cyberattack, human-factor researchers and psychologists might improve AV cybersecurity by researching how to decrease the probability of a successful attack. We review some area...

Several emerging smartphone location-based augmented-reality (AR) games require three primary tasks: training or battling a monster, capturing a monster, and searching for a monster, which involve different levels of perceptual load. Using the AR game originated from Japan as a single case study, this study examined inattentional blindness and deaf...

Objectives Crashes due to motorcyclists colliding with an open car door can cause devastating injuries. In Taiwan, such crashes typically occur when the motorcyclist is travelling alongside a row of parallel-parked cars, and a driver suddenly opens the door in front of or next to the motorcycle without determining whether it is safe to do so. Injur...

The driving performance of professional truck drivers was assessed though a driving simulator and correlated with Big Five personality traits, sensation seeking, and present time perspective. The variables measured were speed and lateral position in the lane. The Big Five personality traits were measured by a NEO-FFI questionnaire, sensation seekin...

We examined Czech drunk drivers and their opinions and beliefs about drunk driving, strategies to avoid being caught, and their understanding of the associated legal punishments. Two focus groups were conducted with a total of 10 people who had suspended driving licenses and who had experience with driving under the influence of alcohol. The partic...

Lidský faktor je zásadní proměnnou ovlivňující bezpečnost silničního provozu. Důležitou součástí toho, jak se lidský faktor v silničním provozu projevuje, je styl, jakým řidič řídí své vozidlo. V tomto článku shrnujeme výzkum týkající se řidičských stylů mladých řidičů. Zabýváme se metodami, kterými se řidičské styly zkoumají, jako jsou např. metod...

A large part of psychology has become an empirical science that assumes that there might exist one set of research methods suitable for psychological research in all human cultures. Research questions, methods, and theories formulated from one cultural perspective are not thoroughly introspectively examined when being used in another cultural envir...

The present study addresses language ostracism in intercultural communication, a phenomenon when someone speaks a language but some members of this language community don’t speak to him in this language. This phenomenon is illustrated by language behaviour towards visually distinct bilingual minorities in Taiwan. Visually distinct minorities in Tai...

This paper examines feelings of people deceived by partner in instant messenger (IM) communication and possible ability of high - Machs to deceive better than low - Machs. 28 respondents participated in two IM conversations with group of other 28 people, whose machiavellianism was assessed . In the second conversation they were lied by part...

Some problems of conducting cultural comparisons in psychological research are mentioned. First, the constructs and methods used often don't tell anything meaningful about cultures in question - as if we used temperature (construct) and thermomether (method) to compare water and nitrogen. Often, method developed to measure construct meaningful in c...

Tokenism is a situation in which a member of a distinctive category is treated differently from other people. This article is about the situation in which Tokens (people perceived as distinctive) are considered experts on something for having the properties of a token (the thing which makes them distinctive). Tokens who differ by appearance or by b...

Personality perception accuracy after instant messenger communication and relation of content of messages to self- and stranger-perceived personality were examined in two cultures. Czech and Chinese subjects were paired into couples with a stranger and spoke with him or her through Windows Live Messenger (in the Czech Republic) or QQ (in China). Af...

East Asian cultures are often labelled as 'collectivistic', 'dialectical' or 'Confucian' in comparative psychological research. This tendency is used to justify the generalisation of results found in one East Asian culture to all East Asian cultures and leads to an absence of psychological research comparing different East Asian cultures. In this p...

Dialectical thinking is tendency to perceive things to have mutually contradictory characteristics. People from Chinese cultures were found to be more prone to think this contradictory way. I checked the hypothesis, that proneness for dialectical thinking in Chinese societies is caused by social orientation (Varnum, Grossman, Kitayama & Nisbett, 20...

This poster provides information about part of results from our research of connection between personality and aesthetical appraisal for chaotic attractors (Linkov & Staudek, 2004), which is connected with possible usage of attractors as a diagnostic tool. We provide information about correlations between preference for attractors with higher amoun...

When people meet a stranger, they make some first impression about his or her personality. This first impression may have a lot of errors, especially on the Internet, where people are not able to see cues, which can help them to judge strangers. This paper examines tendency of people to assume personality of likeable stranger as similar to their ow...

V článku porovnáváme „běžnou“ a „lživou“ internetovou komunikaci vedenou přes Windows Live Messenger. Respondenti měli v experimentálně pojatém výzkumu nejprve za úkol komunikovat s druhou neznámou osobou, poté dostali za úkol komunikovat s jinou osobou a přitom předstírat identitu opačného pohlaví a lhát. Následně jsme porovnávali jazykové prostře...

This article presents and discusses the results of a linguistic analysis of the differences between non-deceptive and deceptive messages used within computer-mediated communication. The primary method for this study was an experiment involving 28 participants who were asked to communicate with a partner using Windows Live Messenger, and then instru...

Popularity of communication by Instant Messenger (eg. ICQ, MSN) in companies grows in last years. But research of IM communication effect on labor productivity is not good and a lot of possible psychological variables was not investigated yet. Effects of personality variables is discussed in this paper. Effects of unseen differences between IM a...

We explore connections between preference s for certain types of square mosaics and personality measures. A total of 70 respondent s participated in our research, 35 men and 35 women, mostly students of Faculty of Social Studi es and Faculty of Informatics. They fill us NEO-FFI personality questionnaire, Seligman’s test of Optimi sm and Consciou...

The article uncovers relationship between aesthetic preference for mathematically generated fractal curves with considerable aesthetic appeal?chaotic attractors?and personality of their appraisers. The examined character dimensions are those described by the ?Big Five? factors of personality ; attractors are classified according to the Lyapunov exp...