Your vehicle is your personal space, but you're out on the public road. The territoriality of the personal space sometimes conflicts with public decorum. To wit:
Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage : Nature News
Colorado State University psychologist William Szlemko headed up a study that recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos, or plastic dashboard toys to their cars. Szlemko found a link between road rage and the number of personalized items on or in people's vehicles.
"The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition, or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,' says Szlemko.
In humans, as in many other species, overcrowding leads to increased territorial aggression, and the team suspected that this was what was happening on the roads.
What's more, only the number of bumper stickers, and not their content, predicted road rage...
"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers" OR "God is my co-pilot" - doesn't matter.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Szlemko suggests that this territoriality may encourage road rage because drivers are simultaneously in a private space (their car) and a public one (the road). 'We think they are forgetting that the public road is not theirs, and are exhibiting territorial behavior that normally would only be acceptable in personal space,' the researcher says.
It is pretty amazing that whenever someone blows past you or cuts you off, aggressive driving or road rage, that they do, indeed, have a bumper sticker, or fuzzy dice, or fog lights when its clear, or some other marker that stands them apart. It certainly pays to keep a closer watch on these types of vehicles.
Do expediters fall into this same trend? I dunno. Let's find out, shall we?
Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage : Nature News
Colorado State University psychologist William Szlemko headed up a study that recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos, or plastic dashboard toys to their cars. Szlemko found a link between road rage and the number of personalized items on or in people's vehicles.
"The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition, or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,' says Szlemko.
In humans, as in many other species, overcrowding leads to increased territorial aggression, and the team suspected that this was what was happening on the roads.
What's more, only the number of bumper stickers, and not their content, predicted road rage...
"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers" OR "God is my co-pilot" - doesn't matter.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Szlemko suggests that this territoriality may encourage road rage because drivers are simultaneously in a private space (their car) and a public one (the road). 'We think they are forgetting that the public road is not theirs, and are exhibiting territorial behavior that normally would only be acceptable in personal space,' the researcher says.
It is pretty amazing that whenever someone blows past you or cuts you off, aggressive driving or road rage, that they do, indeed, have a bumper sticker, or fuzzy dice, or fog lights when its clear, or some other marker that stands them apart. It certainly pays to keep a closer watch on these types of vehicles.
Do expediters fall into this same trend? I dunno. Let's find out, shall we?
