Outline of My Ninth Oral Presentation
How Can We Change?
This is a presentation of Road Rage and Aggressive
Driving: Steering Clear of Highway Warfare, By: Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl, Prometheus Books,
By: Amy Beeler
Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/g22-oral.htm
I. Objective Self-Assessment
for Drivers
A.
Road Rage and Aggressive driving exist on single behavior continuum.
B.
Three step program-helps develop better emotional fitness on the road
1. Acknowledge that everyone needs traffic emotions
education
2.
Witness your actual behavior while driving
3.
Modify behavior you want to change, each one at a time
II. Self-Witnessing
A.
Self witnessing is the act of verbalizing thoughts and feelings during an
activity to create a point by point description of what’s going on.
B.
Checklist: Witnessing Your Aggressive Driving. Observe three behavior zones:
1. Emotions
2. Thoughts
3. Actions
III. Resistance to Change
A.
Everyone initially rejects/resists changing their driving style, but this
gradually changes as realization of the possibility of a more pleasurable
experience when they have less automatic inner pressures.
B.
Empathizing with the other driver is a useful technique for modifying unwanted
behaviors.
C.
Inner tools are important to help regulate behavior
D.
Keep a Driving Diary
E.
Checklist: Identifying Your Irrational Driving Rules
Helpful Links:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/409bf96/oshiroki/459/report2.html
www.carprices.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?name=roadrage2.html
webpages.marshall.edu/~rogusky1/nonviolent.html
My Home Page:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2005/beeler/home.htm