Road Rage: Assessment and Treatment of the Angry, Aggressive Driver
- ISBN-10
- 1591473055
- ISBN-13
- 9781591473053
- Series
- Road Rage
- Category
- Transportation / Automotive / General
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Authors
- Tara E. Galovski, Loretta S. Malta, Edward B. Blanchard
Description
In recent years, reports of road rage, where aggressive or angry drivers exhibit dangerous behavior toward others on the road, have frequently made newspaper headlines. Extensive descriptive and experimental research studies have supported a reliable association between aggressive driving and increased risk of motor vehicle accidents. To the extent that aggressive driving increases this risk, it continues to pose a serious threat to public health. But what are the psychological mechanisms underlying such behavior? In this book, authors Tara Galovski, Loretta Malta, and Edward Blanchard explore this widespread but understudied phenomenon, including the etiology of driving anger and how it relates to more general findings on the inter-relations of anger, hostility, and aggression. Road Rage provides a detailed and integrative summary of the existing literature on aggressive driving ...
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