{"id":615,"date":"2008-07-03T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=615"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:12:42","slug":"badges-posters-stickers-and-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/07\/03\/badges-posters-stickers-and-road-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"badges, posters, stickers, and road rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>brad k. sends word of a colorado state study linking bumper stickers to road rage. territoriality is the hypothesized mechanism. here’s the newsweek<\/a><\/em> synopsis, with a link to the authors and article:<\/p>\n

As scientists led by <\/span>Lucy Troup<\/span><\/a> and her student William Szlemko of Colorado State University report in the <\/span>June issue of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology<\/span><\/a>, it\u2019s a simple matter of territoriality. Researchers have long known that drivers who have a strong sense of personal space while in their vehicle are more likely to be road-ragers, and the more someone plasters his vehicle with bumper stickers and decals the more territorial he feels about the space inside.<\/span>
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\nand a few lines from the abstract:<\/p>\n

Aggressive driving may occur when social norms for defending a primary territory (i.e., one’s automobile) become confused with less aggressive norms for defending a public territory (i.e., the road). Both number of territory markers (e.g., bumper stickers, decals) and attachment to the vehicle were significant predictors of aggressive driving. <\/span><\/p>\n

when i pitched this story to the contexts <\/em>board as a possible discoveries <\/em>piece, i was asked whether the sentiment expressed on the bumper sticker made any difference. apparently not. while the number <\/em>of stickers is highly predictive, the researchers found no evidence that visualize whirled peas<\/em> was any less dangerous than they’ll have to pry my AK-47 from my cold dead fingers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

i suppose territoriality is a reasonable explanation, though my first thought was that badges, posters, stickers, and t-shirts<\/a> are expressions of extroversion, which might be directly linked to externalizing behaviors such as bird-flippin’ and roadside dukers.<\/p>\n

but now i’m buying the researchers’ argument and thinking it might be territoriality after all — i’ve been driving much more aggressively since the arrival of those ICUDV8 license plates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

brad k. sends word of a colorado state study linking bumper stickers to road rage. territoriality is the hypothesized mechanism. here’s the newsweek synopsis, with a link to the authors and article: As scientists led by Lucy Troup and her student William Szlemko of Colorado State University report in the June issue of the Journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[31522],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violence","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}