If you do this while driving, you might be a psychopath, scientists say
Talk about a highway to hell.
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People who commonly text and drive are associated with psychopathic behavior
The new data — from interviews with nearly 1,000 German drivers, about 73% of them women found a shocking 600-plus participants, or about 61%, admitted to “problematic” use of their devices while driving.
Problematic Smartphone Use and the Correlation with Negative traits known as “dark triad”
Along with connections to fear of missing out and anti-social behavior, problematic smartphone users (PSU) evoked three negative traits known as the “dark triad” — narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy, which unrelated research also recently connected to drivers with deliberately loud cars.
A Call for Targeted Interventions and Assessments
Since this factor can be changed more easily than personality, PSU should be targeted in public safety interventions, driving training and court-mandated medical-psychological assessment of driver fitness. It might be a good strategy to help people reduce their PSU in everyday life, which should indirectly decrease the chances of using their phones on the road and prevent accidents and fatal crashes.” - the study authors wrote
