Wearing a bike helmet might make you more dangerous

Wearing safety equipment boosts appetite for danger, even in unrelated activities, a study has foundPerhaps safety helmets should carry a health warning. Wearing them, it appears, encourages dangerous risk-taking. In an extraordinary study, Dr Tim Gamble and Dr Ian Walker, from the University of Bath’s department of psychology, have shown that wearing a helmet is likely to increase sensation-seeking and make people less safe – even in situations where headgear is not required.The aca