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Road Rage And Its Avoidance - Research Paper

Road Rage And Its Avoidance

“He cut me off.” “She wouldn’t let me pass.” “Nobody gives me the finger.” “I would never had shot him if he hadn’t rear-ended me.” “He practically ran me off the road—what was I supposed to do?” These and many other frightening “reasons” came from those who were associated with incidents that had resulted in injury or death on our roadways, but what exactly is “road rage” or aggressive driving? Is it truly a national problem? Is it a phenomenon of congested urban areas, or is it happening elsewhere? Who were the typical aggressors? What was setting them off? What can be done to stop or simply just avoid the problem?
In order to understand the problem, we must know what it is. ...

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up to the final crime and what eventually triggers of these people?
The psychological process leading up to the final and the final triggering of the anger are all part of a somewhat long and complex process by which the committer of the act goes through and eventually commits the crime. As it turns out, aggressive driving is rarely the result of a single incident, such as a stolen parking space or being cut off by traffic by another driver. Rather, they seem to be the result of personal attitudes and the accumulation of stress in the motorist’s life. The so-called reasons for disputes mentioned earlier are actually triggers. In most human behavior, there is a stated and unstated, conscious and unconscious, motivation. The motivation for these traffic disputes is no exception. While the event that sparks the incident may be trivial, in every case there exists some reservoir of anger, hostility, or frustration that is released by the triggering incident. Road rage is also ...

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Added: 3/16/2005 05:52:40 AM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1090
Pages: 4

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