Driving psychology is a new discipline that comes to answer the society’s necessity of controlling the consequences of the growing number of vehicles. The increasing traffic accidents and all kinds of costs are to be prevented. Driving Psychology, from a cognitive-behavioural angle, contributes to revert accidents.
Driving a vehicle is a complex activity linked to the emotional area, between others. That is why the drive experiences a series of reactions to any unexpected event -anger, frustration, violence, rage, anxiety-. Different studies have identified negative attitudes in drivers involved in accidents. These attitudes turn into behaviour, emotions and thoughts that will have a determinant effect when driving a vehicle.
For example, a person with a negative attitude towards women drivers thinks "what a mess, women drive awfully", negative behaviours, like making them notice a mistake by braking abruptly, and emotions such as frustration and aggression. This answer, which acts in chain reaction, increases the own and others risk of causing an accident.
Intelligent Driving, thanks to Driving Psychology, helps the drivers to modify attitudes and aims to control the emotions, thoughts and behaviours that influence negatively in driving. The used techniques are effective and can be learned easily. The intelligent driver is a driver emotionally trained to answer positively and effectively to growing traffic obstacles nowadays.
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