Driving anger and metacognition: The role of thought confidence on anger and aggressive driving intentions

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 323-334

  Blankenship, Kevin L ^a   Nesbit, Sundé M ^b   Murray, Renee A ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive driving intentions; Anger; Metacognition; Thought confidence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; VIOLENCE; CLINICAL STUDY; METACOGNITION; PROVOCATION; THINKING;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITION; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84878801620     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21484     Document Type: Article

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