{"id":15514,"date":"2021-12-09T03:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=15514"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:39:53","slug":"arousal-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=15514","title":{"rendered":"Arousal breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was a tally that shocked the experts: 38,680 deaths on U.S. roadways last year,\u00a0the most since 2007<\/a>\u00a0even though pandemic precautions had dramatically reduced driving.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

The latest evidence suggests that after decades of safety gains, the pandemic has made U.S. drivers more reckless \u2014 more likely to speed, drink or use drugs and leave their seatbelts unbuckled.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

The rise in motor vehicle deaths lines up with other pandemic-era trends: Alcohol sales have soared,\u00a0drug overdoses<\/a>\u00a0have set new records, and\u00a0homicides<\/a>\u00a0have seen their biggest increase on record.<\/p>\n

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COVID-19 marks \u201ca sea change in psychology,\u201d said Frank Farley, a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, who views reckless driving as a form of rebellion \u2014 or what he calls \u201carousal breakout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been cooped up, locked down, and have restrictions you chafe at,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if you can have an arousal breakout, you want to take it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times: It was a tally that shocked the experts: 38,680 deaths on U.S. roadways last year,\u00a0the most since 2007\u00a0even though pandemic precautions had dramatically reduced driving. \u2026 The latest evidence suggests that after decades of safety gains, the … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}