Download or read book Steering Clear of Highway Madness written by John A. Larson (M.D.) and published by Bookpartners. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terror on the Highway written by Paul Eberle and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor chases, then assaults an elderly woman after she cuts in front of his BMW; a teenager shoots another driver because the driver "looked at him with disrespect"; one man kills another because "he was driving too slow." These are a few of the many examples of extreme road rage documented by Paul Eberle in this shocking look at the havoc caused by angry people in their cars. Eberle makes it clear that young and old, men and women, and all socioeconomic classes are involved in this epidemic of rage and violence on our highways. In 1998, the California Highway Patrol recorded 209 incidents of Assault with a Deadly Weapon in which a motor vehicle was the weapon used, and in the same year the media reported more than 4,000 stories on road rage nationwide. Since then, the problem has only gotten worse.Eberle lists the warning signs of potential road-rage drivers, suggests ways to avoid such dangerous individuals, discusses the psychology of the car as "holy icon" and the effects of traffic congestion on "mad car disease," expresses skepticism about psychologists specializing in aggressive driving, and proposes ways to reinvent our cities to make them less stressful, dangerous places.Complete with graphic pictures showing the dire consequences of driving while enraged, Terror on the Highway should be mandatory reading in all driver education classes.
Download or read book Road Rage written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Road Rage and Aggressive Driving written by Leon James and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative book presents conclusions of recent studies on road rage, summarizes legislative and police initiatives, and redefines driver education for all drivers.
Download or read book Road Rage to Road Wise written by John A. Larson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the "Five Stressful Driver Beliefs, " and offers simple, easy-to-follow strategies to help reduce driver anger and frustration by focusing more on the enjoyment of the drive.
Download or read book Translating Psychological Research Into Practice written by Lisa R. Grossman and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book Driver Behaviour and Training written by Dr Lisa Dorn and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated that drivers' goals and motivations are important determinants of driver behaviour. The importance of this work is underlined by statistics: WHO figures show that road accidents are predicted to be the number three cause of death and injury by 2020 (currently more than 20 million deaths and injuries p.a.). The objective of the third volume, and of the conference on which it is based, is to describe and discuss recent advances in the study of driving behaviour and driver training. It bridges the gap between practitioners in road safety, and theoreticians investigating driving behaviour, from a number of different perspectives and related disciplines. A major focus is to consider how driver training and education needs to be adapted to raise awareness of the personal characteristics that contribute to unsafe driving behaviour with the aim of developing and reporting interventions to improve road safety. The contributors consider the novice driver problem, emotions and driver behaviour, at-work road safety, technological interventions, human factors and the road environment and rider behaviour. The readership for this volume includes researchers from a variety of different academic backgrounds, senior practitioners in road safety, including regulatory authorities, the police service, and private and public sector personnel working with drivers and motorcyclists.
Download or read book Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research written by Arch G. Woodside and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists’ buying, consumption, and being through examinations of consumers’ self-descriptions of personal markers of their trip configurations.
Download or read book Neuronflashing the Polemic written by Leonard L. Clark III M.A.Ed M.S. PSY and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We as individuals share the world with others we fear, hate, or envy. We inhabit the earth with individuals we respect, love, and admire. There are many individuals we can't quite figure out and this makes us disregard them. Why is it that we spend the most physical and mental energy on those individuals who fall into the negative categories of fear, hate, or envy? In this collection of essays, Leonard Clark explores the philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural manifestations of these negative emotional states. Why are we all so paranoid, irritated and agitated?
Download or read book Intelligent Medicine written by Ronald L. Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 74 million people in their late thirties and early forties, Intelligent Medicine presents the complete spectrum of health-care options. Ronald Hoffman, who specializes in integrating conventional and alternative medicine, discusses each major system in the body and offers preventive techniques and treatment options for common ailments in Intelligent Medicine.
Download or read book Road Rage and Aggressive Driving written by Dr. Leon James and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative book presents conclusions of recent studies on road rage, summarizes legislative and police initiatives, and redefines driver education for all drivers.
Download or read book Road Rage written by Tara E. Galovski and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Road Rage provides a detailed and integrative summary of the existing literature on aggressive driving as well as detailed assessment information on the aggressive drivers from a variety of perspectives?standardized psychological tests, psychiatric diagnoses, and psychophysiological measurement, among others.
Download or read book Understanding Road Rage written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular opinion has it that "road rage" is increasingly prevalent and dangerous in the urban driving environment. Whether or not this opinion is true, driver frustration in congested conditions may lead to an increase in aggressive driving, a less intentionally malignant and more common subset of road rage. The potential for significant safety benefits might be realized if transportation professionals had a better understanding of some roadway factors and characteristics of the congested driving environment that induce irritation and perhaps contribute to the frequency of aggressive driving. This report documents the major first-year activities: literature review, focus groups, telephone survey, and development of potential traffic engineering mitigation measures. Researchers studied five focus groups consisting of six to ten individuals and a telephone survey of over 400 Dallas motorists to identify and quantify the pertinent factors increasing driver impatience, irritation, and stress in the congested driving environment. Based upon the survey responses, the research team developed reasonable and feasible traffic engineering mitigation measures (i.e., those factors related to the roadway itself--geometrics, signs and markings, incident clearance activities, etc.) for further evaluation. The following three items were selected for further evaluation: (1) Innovative merge strategies--test concepts such as the late merge and zipping at urban work zones; (2) Bottleneck improvements--evaluate the benefits of adding capacity at freeway bottlenecks for reducing aggressive driving; and (3) Photogrammetric investigation of incidents--assess the ability of photogrammetry to expedite incident clearance. The second year of the project will test these measures, both in a laboratory setting (driving simulator in College Station) and in the real world (field studies on highway facilities in the Dallas area)
Download or read book Road Rage written by Maria L. Garase and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Garase examines aggressive driving and road rage among college students. Her approach is based in Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST) (1992). She uses GST theory to include the three sources of strain, situational and trait anger, and coping mechanisms (peer relationships and self-control). Strain has a direct, positive, significant relationship with road rage, and also an indirect effect through the coping mechanism of peer behavior. Garase concludes that strain as well as trait anger play significant roles in determining who is likely to participate in acts of aggressive driving and road rage.
Download or read book Traffic Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Road User Behavior and Traffic Safety written by Dwight A. Hennessy and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the work of researchers from around the world and from a variety of disciplines who are actively searching for ways to make our roadways a safer and more pleasant place to be. Although behavioural scientists have long been interested in learning about what drivers do the study of driving behaviour has only recently attracted the dedicated interest of psychologists and other researchers. Roadways are now increasingly recognised as an excellent naturalistic setting to study a variety of behaviours that were previously constrained to laboratories. Streets and roads are ubiquitous, constituting an integral part of most people's everyday environment or life space. As with other environmental features, emotional meanings are attached to our subjective perceptions of roadways which ultimately influence immediate and long term thoughts, feelings, and actions. traffic safety, including the nature, measurement and treatment of roadway aggression, types of traffic violations in diverse parts of the world, the pervasive concern with the alcohol and driving, attempts to modify problematic driver behaviours, engineering and human factors concerns such as cell phone operation by drivers, the use of vehicle black box recorders, and the safety of airbags. We also present some examples of theoretical models and their usefulness in stimulating research and providing an overall explanatory model for a diverse range of driving behaviours. The chapters in this book explore many of these issues with driver behaviours being investigated by psychologists, sociologists, engineers and others.
