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by Dr. Leon James
1996-2014
1. My
Congressional
Testimony on the Psychology of Road Rage and Aggressive
Driving
2. Our
Road Rage and
Aggressive Driving Book -- Excerpts and Index
3. Dealing
with stress and pressure in the vehicle. Taxonomy of
Driving Behavior: Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor
4. A New Paradigm
for a Global Lifelong Driver Education Curriculum
5. Two
concept Papers: Instituting
a
Program of Lifelong Traffic Safety Training
and Promoting
the Spread of Quality Driving Circles (QDC) for
Post-Licensing Driver Self-improvement Programs
6. Lifelong
Driver's Education: A New Socio-Behavioral Proposal
7. Driving
Psychology Principles
8. Aggressive
Driving is Emotionally Impaired Driving
9. Aggressive
Driving
is Emotionally Impaired Driving Conference Paper Summary
Principles, Handouts, Analyses, and Charts
10. Driver Personality Survey Results: Driving With
Emotional Intelligence
11. Gender
and Driving--Men vs. Women
12. Driving
Personality
Makeovers
13. Musings
of a Traffic Psychologist in Traffic--Social Psychology of
Driving
14. Partnership
Driving
15. Philosophy
of
Driving
16. Principles
of
Driving Psychology
17. Psychology
and
Driving
18. Violence
and Driving--A Mental Health Issue
19. QDC--Quality
Driving Circles or Support Groups
20. 3-Step
Program for Changing Your Driving Habits
21. Data
On the Private World of the Driver (thoughts and feelings)
22. What
Drivers Complain About Arranged by Feelings, Thoughts, and
Acts
23. Common
Aggressive Driving Habits and What To Do About Them
24. Traffic
Emotions
Education Cards
25. DrDriving's
Rating of the Strength of Aggressive Driving Language in
Legislation
26. Common
Driving Habits and What To Do About Them
27.Cars, Drivers,
Passengers and Relationships, Marriage, Romance
28. Drivers Against
Pedestrians: How to Change Attitudes -- Checklist for Your
Tendency to Pressure Pedestrians -- Your Emotional
Intelligence Towards Pedestrians
29. Pedestrian
Psychology
and Safety
30. Pedestrian
Rage
31. Bicycling
Safety
Information -- The War Against Drivers
32. The Psychology of Air Rage
Prevention With Compassionate Crowd Management Techniques
33. Driving
Informatics
and Links
34. Driving
Information
and Links
35. Driving
Topics
and Web Links
36. Driving
Literature
References
37. Largest
Collection of Road
Rage and Driving Tips on the Web (1996-2007)
39. Acts
of Kindness while Driving
40. DBB
Ratings--Drivers
Behaving Badly Movie Ratings
41. Distracted
Driving:
Cell phones, Multitasking
42. Red Light
Running
43. Collection
of Statistics, Facts,
Advice, Tips
44. Analyzing
Newsgroups
for Drivers--Student Reports
45. Workshop
Charts on Getting a Grip on Anger while Driving
46. Music and
Driving
47. For Law
Enforcement and Safety Officials: Aggressive Driving
Questions and Answers
48. Chart of
Your Driving Personality
49. Road Rage
Overview
50. Driver
Personality
Test
51. Driving
Vignettes
52. Driving
Cartoons
53. DrDriving's Advice for
Managing Your Own Road Rage
54. Hawaii
Road Rage and Driving Issues
55. The New Driver
Education for the Year 2000
56. Collection
of
Road Rage News Stories Around the World
57. Interview
Answers on Road Rage and Other Rages for Various News
Sources
58. The
Psychology of Parking Rage: Threestep
Program For Prevention
59. Driver
Personality Test and Results
60. DrDriving's Advice for AAA Members on
Managing Your Own Road Rage
61. Emotional
Reactions to the September 11 Attack
62. Pets
Psychology and Rage-Depression -- Pet Loss Support, Human
Catheads, More...
63. Birds
Stories The Social Psychology of a Backyard Aviary
64. Songs
About Driving Cars on Roads and Highways
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by Dr. Leon James
Oahu Fleet Safety Organization (OFSO) September 1996
Safety Facts
Self-Witnessing Exercise
What Kind of FEELINGS do you have while driving?
What kind of THOUGHTS do you have while driving?
What kind of ACTIONS do you do while driving?
Answers here
Budget Rent-A-Car Hawaii Car Show, Honolulu, February 1997
Displays DrDriving's Tips
and Slogans
Answers here
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Joey Ledford October 1998
James believes road rage is a habit acquired in
childhood.
James differs from many experts in the fledgling field.
Therapy, he said, is not the cure for road rage. He pushes a
three-step self help program he
calls AWM.
Answers here
The Sunday Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Joe Boyle February 1999
Officials try to curb `road rage'
Driver behavior in the Hostile Zone
James suggests driver's education from kindergarten throughout
the rest of their driving career.
Answers here
Bicycling Magazine Doug Donaldson April 2000
Why do drivers get so angry when they see people on
bikes?
Do you believe that drivers see cyclists
as living outside the rules and thus is cause for
road rage?
What are some signs of road rage a cyclist might see in a
driver?
What's should a rider do when they spot a driver with road
rage, specifically directed at the cyclist?
Answers here
The Washington Post Don
Oldenburg
April 2000
I'm working on a short piece that looks at several
recently released racing and driving video games. I'm
wondering if you've given any thought to this genre of home entertainment which puts players behind
the wheel of everything from racing cars to dirt bikes. Most
of these games are racers, other are speed and bash games.
Any chance this kind of play acting
could relieve tension after a long commute home?
When talking about racing/driving videogames, it's easy to see
that the extreme titles, such as Carmageddon,
where the point is to run-down pedestrians, could be harmful.
Are we as drivers bringing more agendas behind the wheel today
than we used to? Not only eating, talking on the cell phone,
doing business on the dashboard--but also expressing our
frustrations and anger from other parts of our lives through
our automobiles?
Answers here
Jornal Valor (Sao Paulo,
Brazil) Claudio Cordovil May 2000
How many deaths are caused by road rage each year?
Do you believe that we must consider road rage as a kind of
public health problem?
What aggressive road rage is becoming more common?
Is road rage increasing?
Are there differences in aggressive driving across
countries--is it a universal epidemic?
What is the efficacy of psychotherapeutic-like techniques in
order to deal with that problem?
Can it be seen as a symptom of society's growing loss of
community, a decay of moral values?
Answers here
UCLA Women and Road Rage Darwyn
Carson November 2000
What can women do - for themselves and (working within
the family) their teens who may be
approaching driving age - to arrest this peaking epidemic?
Isn't this going against how women are usually perceived - as
the peacemakers of society?
Do you know who originated the term road rage? When was the
term first used?
Could you give me a few ways women - (single and well as
married with children) might begin to deal with this problem.
Answers here
Chatelaine
Magazine Shandley McMurray
December 2000
How
would you define road rage?
Could she have avoided this?
How can women drivers avoid being the victims of road rage?
Can you name 10 ways that women drivers can avoid being road
ragers or aggressive drivers
themselves? (or what are the top
10 ways to dispel road rage?)
Why did you write your book "Road Rage And Aggressive
Driving"?
Do you think this topic is of more concern to women than
men? If so, why?
Answers here
San Francisco Examiner Judy DeMocker
December 2000
I'm interested in covering, at least cursorily, the
psychological underpinnings of Road Rage, to better understand
what makes it so difficult for drivers to share the roads with
bicyclists, skaters, and pedestrians.
So any theories on why bicyclists get targeted for hostile or
aggressive behavior more than, say, pedestrians do?
For motorists, what happens in them that they cannot recognize
their bad behavior or the consequences of it?
And, what are the triggers for this sort of rage? You say it's
learned behavior from childhood-- What activates it?
Is road rage just a socially sanctioned way of dumping
repressed emotions?
Answers here
Live Chat with Epotec Dale Dallabrida
February 2001
How do you define "road rage"?
How do you define "aggressive driving"?
Is aggressive driving on the increase?
What states have the biggest problems with aggressive driving?
I try not to be aggressive, but people who don't follow road
signs and cut me off do make me really angry. Any tips for
coping with all the idiots out there?
Answers here
Boston Globe Article Tara Arden-Smith February 2001
I'm trying to explore is whether contemporary
litigiousness and increasingly official behavior-regulation
has contributed to the more extreme and fatal outbursts of
rage.
It seems that several decades ago there were many more
physical outlets for anger that were reasonably innocuous,
socially acceptable and certainly less lethal, i.e. the
schoolyard fistfight.
What kinds of predictive factors are associated with violent
rage?
Answers here
Culturenotes Webseed Publishing Network Allan Stein October 2001
What is the clinical definition of parking lot rage?
Why does it happen, who is most susceptible to it
psychologically, and how can it be prevented?
Does parking lot rage signify a coarsening of attitudes and an
erosion of public etiquette?
Answers here
Men's Health UK Rob Kemp
November 2001
Are there any specifically identified reasons why men are
more prone to road rage?
What can be done to reduce the likelihood
of our readers 'losing it' behind the wheel.
Answers here
Gala December 2001
How common is "road rage" or aggressive driving today as
opposed to 10 or 20 years ago?
Why has road rage become more common over the years? Is it
just a sign of the times or a reflection on our society as a
whole?
How does road rage affect all drivers--from the angry driver
to the unsuspecting drivers?
What advice or tips would you give to our readers/commuters
who feel as if they're going to blow their top and slide into
aggressive driving?
Answers here
First For Women Magazine Robin
Rinaldi September 2003
Definition of Aggressive Driving
Types and Levels of Aggressive Driving
TEE Cards--Traffic Emotions Education
Anger Control Methods
Attribution Bias in Driving Exchanges
Symptoms of Confrontational Thinking
Test Your Road Rage Tendency
Checklist: Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings
The Gender Effect
Answers here
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Recommended Review Article
"Respect on the Road": Mott MacDonald Literature
Review
Motorists' Forum 2007
Executive
summary
Critical
assessment of key sources
Introduction
Methodology
Definitions
What do
people understand respect on the road to be?
How
does behaviour differ
between road users e.g. car users, van drivers,
motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians, and why?
What
are peoples' attitudes to the police, parking attendants
and other law enforcers on the road?
What
characteristics of the car environment cause a person's
respect for others to diminish?
How do
people justify their behaviour
on the road?
To what
extent are the people who show a lack of respect on the
road more likely to exhibit dangerous behaviour on the roads?
What
would make people improve their behaviour
on the road and show more respect for others?
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