Chapter 7 Aggression on Roadways

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a typology of the disparate forms and maps regarding dimensions of their manifestations so that they may be more clearly differentiated. The chapter describes the topical background and then differentiate the various contemporary manifestations and their historical precursors. It is evident that the present day forms of road violence which have the appearance of novelty in fact have long-standing existences. Aggressive behavior has a recurrent association with automobile driving reflected in the symbolization of cars and trucks, as well as being rooted in psychosocial experiences on congested roadways. Dramatic occurrences of violence such as freeway shooting episodes is thought to be idiosyncratic events in their historical and phenomenological context. Freeway shootings are the one type of aggression occurring on roadways that in no way is unique to any regional area. The disinhibition of aggression is seen to result from multiple influence channels associated with physiological arousal, traffic context, aggressive scripts, and contagion mechanisms linked with the mass media. Modeling and suggestion are thought to have an important role during the diffusion of an aggressive behavior prototype.

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