UID:
almafu_9960161335802883
Format:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-12-811009-0
Note:
Front Cover -- The Psychology of the Car -- The Psychology of the Car -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Plates -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - The Automotive System -- In Love With the Automobile -- Growth of the Automobile System -- The Social and Environmental Cost of Automobility -- Accidents -- Noise -- Air Pollutants -- Obesity -- Climate Change -- The Cost of Cars -- Changing Transport Cultures -- Driver Licensure and Car Ownership -- Cycling -- Information and Communication Technologies -- Sharing Programs -- Individualized Transport Services -- The Future of the Car From the Perspective of Consultancies -- Two Billion Cars? -- 2 - The Psychology of the Car -- Car Culture -- The Car in Movies -- Advancing the Understanding of Automobility -- Time Geography -- Travel Time Budgets -- Utility Theory and Its Successors -- The System of Automobility and the Mobilities Turn -- The Complexity of Transport Behavior -- A More Comprehensive Transport Psychology -- Social Psychology -- Evolutionary (Social) Psychology -- Clinical Psychology -- 3 - Automobile Personalities and (Co)Identities -- Car Driver Personalities -- Cars With Personalities -- Car Identity -- Driver-Car Coidentities -- 4 - Feelings, Emotions and the Car -- Emotions and the Car -- Fear, Anxieties, and Phobias -- Outside World-Safety and Security -- Outside World-Traffic Accidents -- Outside World-Being Stuck -- Outside World-Harming the Environment -- Car Reliability-Dangerous Road Conditions, Bad Weather -- Car Reliability-Getting Lost -- Car Reliability-Wildlife Encounter -- Car Reliability-Running Low on Fuel, Technical Failure -- Cruising Range Anxiety -- Corporeal and Mental Weaknesses -- Social (In)security, Identity, and Self -- Power, Dominance, and Control -- Anger and Aggression.
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Anger and Contempt -- Revenge -- Rebellion -- Illegal Street Racing -- Hooning -- Posing -- Car Nuts -- Coal Rolling -- Escape -- 5 - Automobility, Gender and Sex -- Car Semiotics: The Evolutionary Social Psychology of Attraction -- Engine Noise -- Color -- Eyes -- Conspicuousness -- Size and Dominance -- Exoskeleton -- The Car as Space for Sexual Activity -- Sex on the Road -- Dominance and Submission -- Automobile Sexuality in Movies -- Paraphilia -- 6 - Speed -- Speeding Up -- Melanthius -- kappale -- Stone_Swan -- khazhyk -- non_troppo -- nkuvu -- Psychological Reasons for Speed -- Hormone "Kicks" -- Speed as Sexual Attraction -- Superiority, Domination, and Empowerment -- Speed as Rebellion or Escape -- Speed=Friction -- Speed and Accidents -- Video Games and Speed -- 7 - Rights, Authority, and the Police -- The Right to Automobility -- Hatred of Government -- Police, Authority, and the Law -- Driving Outside the Law -- Celebrities -- Diplomats -- Popular Culture and Perspectives of the Police -- 8 - Community, Friends, Family -- The Importance of Relations -- Community in Car Cultures -- Automobile Organizations -- Car/Ride Sharing -- Car Clubs -- In-Car Community -- Automobile Professions -- Car Events -- Online Community -- Car Media -- Community in Car Movies -- Community and Automobility -- 9 - Risk and Death -- Risk and Death in the Automotive System -- Seeking Death -- Risk-Taking as Arousal -- Sexual Attraction-Reproductive Fitness -- Death Wish -- Car Accidents as Suicide -- Fear Messaging -- Racer Biographies: Troubled Childhoods -- Andreas Nikolaus Lauda (*1949) -- James Simon Wallis Hunt (*1947, †1993) -- Michael Schumacher (*1969) -- Nico Erik Rosberg (*1985) -- Troubled Characters -- Movies and Automobile Death -- Margaret Meggi -- DeAnn Elise -- Carol Rippy Lunger -- 10 - The Clinical Psychology of the Car -- Being Mentally Ill.
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Personality Disorders and Transport Behavior -- Fear/Anxiety-Safety/Security -- Substance Use: Alcohol and Opioids -- Aggressive and Reckless Driving -- Mental Retardation, Dementias, Sleep Disorders -- Trauma -- Obesity -- Communicative Violence, Private Languages, and Personality Disorders -- Trauma, Neglect, Abuse: Car Movies and Real World -- 11 - Barriers to Automobile Change -- Defining Desirable Transport Futures -- A Radical 2030 Transport Vision -- Car Order, Car Identity -- Reconsidering Structures of Automotive Dependency -- Maintaining and Validating the Automotive System -- The Car Will Be Good -- The Car Is Your Home and Partner -- It's a Dangerous World -- You Need the Car -- Be Aware of Authority -- The Risk of Psychological "Tipping Points" -- Towards Systemic Change -- 12 - Sustainable Automotive Futures -- Structures of Dependency -- Interventions: Regime Change, Habits, and Car Values -- Regime Change Expressed in Modal Split Distributions -- Habit Change: Addressing Affective and Symbolic Values -- Successful Interventions: Positive Communication and Reward Systems -- Further Insights for the Design of Interventions -- The Future is an Open Road -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-811008-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
