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Elaicha Garcia Dr. Sepulveda Annotated Bibliography 18th September 2014 Understanding the causes of Road Rage Yakovlev, Pavel, and Arzu Sen. What Drives Road Rage? Atlantic Economic Journal 36.3 (2008): 361-362. Business Source Complete. Web. 4 Sept. 2014. The author of this academic journal explains a survey that was conducted for the second year in a row about the topic on road rage. It discusses various demographic, geographic and economic of people that were taken from the U.S Census Bureau of 25 largest metro areas. Only a few significant variables such as percentage of Hispanics, percentage of high school graduates, foreigners, homeowners, average travel time to work, and population density all were considered valuable†¦show more content†¦Harsh road rage will most likely have long-term physical and mental health issues from the incident. The article describes that Toronto is one of North America’s highest cycling and pedestrian fatality rates, and from that information they did a study to gain a better understanding of road rage victims’ experiences to consider how they might interact with situational and environmental factors in the outcome of incidents. The results that were concluded from this researc h were important key themes before, during, and after the incident. Awareness/Hyper vigilance, Scapegoats, and Power Imbalance occurred before the incident. Special Challenges and Misunderstandings, and General Disregard and Special Consideration. Occurred during the incident. Lastly Psychological/Physical Consequences and Changes in Behavior occurred after the incident. Byrne, Gerry. Road rage. New Scientist 168.2268 (2000): 38. Academic OneFile. Web. 8 Sept. 2014. Byrne writes â€Å"Road rage† to inform those who are unaware of this new data. This article is written with the intention to provide examples of road rage, and how victims are represented. Mr. Byrne starts the article off with an example of two middle aged women driving on the highway that ends in death as destructive conflict harm them. Those who are influenced with violence in their society will show some violence in the form of aggressive driving. With Aggressive behavior is seen