Calling All Cars...
Patience is not a common descriptive word for the observations you make during your morning commute. However, you can learn a lot about why people are impatient by understanding road rage. There is anger present when we observe acts of road rage. It exists at such an intense level, yet strangely, that degree of anger is something we observe most frequently from the vantage point of our vehicle while looking at the other cars around us. Crowds and crowded spaces have never brought on universal feelings of relaxation for humans as a species, but a crowd of cars with people in them just seems to amplify feelings of aggression. But why? Some Answers: An interesting cognitive process happens to people when they become angry in a car. The car that we are driving becomes an extension of ourselves literally because we physically control how it moves similarly to how we are able to control how we move outside a vehicle. ...