TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Psychophysiological, subjective and behavioral differences between high and low anger drivers in a simulation task
JO  - Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour
A1  - Herrero-Fernández, David
SP  - 365
EP  - 375
VL  - 42
IS  - 
N2  - Anger is one of the important human factors in the prediction of road accidents. The aim of this research was to analyze the psychophysiological, subjective and behavioral differences between a high-anger driver group (n = 15) and a low-anger driver group (n = 23) in a driving simulation task. The results showed that high-anger drivers drove in general faster than low-anger drivers (d = 0.83), had more accidents (r =.41), a higher physiological arousal according to heart rate (η2 =.11-.18) and electromyography (η2 =.10-.11) in several driving situations. It was also shown that they scored higher in state anger immediately after the simulation task (d = 0.82) and lower at perceived respect of the traffic rules (d = −0.76), as well as displaying lower rates of attention during the simulation task (d = −0.80). In the second part, correlations among the variables were analyzed. State anger was the only variable that was significantly associated with the three behavioral variables: mean speed (r =.45), infractions (r =.31) and number of crashes during the task (r =.46). Clinical and road safety implications of these results are discussed.     Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1369-8478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2015.12.015
ID  - ref1
ER  -