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The psychology of the car : automobile admiration, attachment, and addiction /
The Psychology of the Car explores automotive cultures through the lens of psychology with the goal of achieving a low-carbon transport future. Worldwide there are now more than one billion cars, and their number grows continuously. Yet there is growing evidence that humanity needs to reach 'pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherland :
Elsevier,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Dedication; Acronyms; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Plates; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Automotive System; In Love With the Automobile; Growth of the Automobile System; 2. The Psychology of the Car; Car Culture; The Car in Movies; Advancing the Understanding of Automobility; The Complexity of Transport Behavior; A More Comprehensive Transport Psychology; 3. Automobile Personalities and (Co)Identities; Car Driver Personalities; Cars With Personalities; Car Identity; Driver-Car Coidentities.
- 4. Feelings, Emotions and the CarEmotions and the Car; Fear, Anxieties, and Phobias; Power, Dominance, and Control; Anger and Aggression; Anger and Contempt; Revenge; Rebellion; Escape; 5. Automobility, Gender and Sex; Car Semiotics: The Evolutionary Social Psychology of Attraction; The Car as Space for Sexual Activity; Sex on the Road; Dominance and Submission; Automobile Sexuality in Movies; Paraphilia; 6. Speed; Speeding Up; Psychological Reasons for Speed; Speed=Friction; Speed and Accidents; Video Games and Speed; 7. Rights, Authority, and the Police; The Right to Automobility.
- Hatred of GovernmentPolice, Authority, and the Law; Driving Outside the Law; Popular Culture and Perspectives of the Police; 8. Community, Friends, Family; The Importance of Relations; Community in Car Cultures; Community in Car Movies; Community and Automobility; 9. Risk and Death; Risk and Death in the Automotive System; Seeking Death; Racer Biographies: Troubled Childhoods; Movies and Automobile Death; 10. The Clinical Psychology of the Car; Being Mentally Ill; Personality Disorders and Transport Behavior; Communicative Violence, Private Languages, and Personality Disorders.
- Trauma, Neglect, Abuse: Car Movies and Real World11. Barriers to Automobile Change; Defining Desirable Transport Futures; Car Order, Car Identity; Reconsidering Structures of Automotive Dependency; Maintaining and Validating the Automotive System; The Risk of Psychological "Tipping Points"; Towards Systemic Change; 12. Sustainable Automotive Futures; Structures of Dependency; Interventions: Regime Change, Habits, and Car Values; Successful Interventions: Positive Communication and Reward Systems; Further Insights for the Design of Interventions; The Future is an Open Road; References; Index.