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"Crime Time" Acts Media Group Live Stream new phenomenon of road rage.

One of the first blogs I ever wrote for Psychology Today back in 2013 was on road rage. It has become the most popular subject I’ve ever posted, not based on the number of page views, but on its attraction to the U.S. and international media. After seven years, not a month doesn’t go by when I don’t get a call or an email from a radio or TV producer or a newspaper reporter, here and abroad, who wants to interview me about what they all call the “new phenomenon of road rage.” Every media interview starts the same way: first a horrible story of road rage in that city or country, which ended with either serious injuries or deaths (of course, always of the non-aggressive participants), arrests, police chases, vehicle damage, and public outrage. Then secondly, the sudden media interest. The first question I always get is just as predictable: why? On this week’s Crime Time, I’ll answer that question for you and talk about how you can keep yourself and your family safe on the road. The answers are many, as I said on this site in 2013 and now: the ability to be anonymously aggressive, testosterone or estrogen poisoning (both men and women can exhibit road rage, though certainly not in equal proportions), no concern for consequences (at least in the moment), the desire to exert unnecessary and stupid influence over what they perceive as “their territory” on the road or highway, and “lizard-brain thinking,” as opposed to “big-brain thinking.” This “amygdala hijacking” compels some people to do things under the hazy rage of uncontrolled anger that they often regret later, but simply cannot see at the time they’re trapped in the event. Many people who got arrested for hitting someone on the side of the road with their fists, or smashing into their car, or using a baseball bat, knife, or gun and doing something that causes them to sit in their jail cell and wish they hadn’t done it. It is often in those “too late now” moments that insight rears its ugly, knowing head, too late to have stopped the person from ruining their lives and the lives of others. Join me for Crime Time, on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, from 1000 to 1100 CDT, on the Acts Media Group Facebook and YouTube pages.