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Motivational and Emotional Aspects Involved in Driving

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It is evident that individuals display different behaviors when driving and especially when involved in accidents. These differences seem to be related in various ways to physical, mental and socio-environmental characteristics of the driver. It is also known that a wide range of situational variables that are all too common in our daily lives, such as fatigue, use of drugs, alcohol or certain medication; sleepiness and transitory behavioral alterations such as stress or anxiety, have a negative influence on driving.

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Bañuls, R., Montoro, L. (2001). Motivational and Emotional Aspects Involved in Driving. In: Barjonet, PE. (eds) Traffic Psychology Today. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6867-1_8

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