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Social Psychology and Society
2015. Vol. 6, no. 1, 93–102
ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052 (online)

Traffic Psychology in Training of Driving Instructors and Drivers: Advanced Training Program for Psychologists

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T.V. Kochetova

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Abstract

The paper presents an advanced training program for specialists working in the field of traffic and transport psychology. This program consists of two sections which thoroughly dis¬cuss the issues related to the most recent foreign applied research in traffic psychology and provide a review of some foreign programs of psychological training for drivers. The program also focuses on the social psychological aspects of road traffic (that is, on the interactions between road users in a big city) as well as on individual psychological characteristics of road users and the importance of exploring them in order to achieve better road safety and pro¬mote accident-free driving.

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Keywords: traffic psychology, transport psychology, road and traffic environment, road traffic, individual psychological characteristics, traffic subjects

Journal rubric: Applied Research and Practice

Article type: theses

For citation: Kochetova T.V. Traffic Psychology in Training of Driving Instructors and Drivers: Advanced Training Program for Psychologists . Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2015. Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 93–102. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

References

  1. Kondrat'ev M.Yu., Kochetova T.V. "Traffic psychology": ot prikladnyh issledovanii k metodologii kompleksnogo izucheniya sovremennoi dorozhno-transportnoi sredy // Sbornik materialov mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferencii, 28—30 iyunya 2012 g. 2 izd. isprav. i dop. SPb., 2012.
  2. Kochetova T.V. K voprosu o perspektivah razvitiya TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY v Rossii // Social'naya psihologiya i obshestvo. 2014. № 4.
  3. Kochetova T.V. "Traffic Psychology": ot fragmentarnyh issledovanii k kompleksnym resheniyam prikladnyh zadach transportnyh problem // Social'naya psihologiya i obsh­estvo. 2011. № 2.

Information About the Authors

Tatiana V. Kochetova, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Management Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-680X, e-mail: kochetovatv@gmail.com

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