Road rage: A domain for psychological intervention?

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-127

  Galovski, Tara E ^a,b   Blanchard, Edward B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Aggressive driving; Anger; Road rage

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANGER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RAGE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1042275545     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-1789(02)00118-0     Document Type: Article

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