Women Drivers are Angrier Than Their Male Counterparts, Hyundai Says

A new study has indicated that when it comes to a road rage, women drivers are more prone to lose their cool compared to their male counterparts, as reported by the Daily Mail.

A study of one thousand UK drivers by Hyundai discovered that women are 12 percent angrier on an average than men when they are behind the wheel. The study that made use of sensors fitted on the drivers' hands indicate that the weaker sex has ingrained "early warning system" because of which they get inflamed quicker.

Patrick Fagan, a behavioral psychologist from London-based Goldsmiths University and conductor of the study stated that the two main dominant factors that drivers experience are happiness-associated to the sense of freedom given by a car-and infuriation, when drivers are of the notion that they have lost control.

The study also discovered that Brits have an inclination towards driving because of the feeling of independence (10 percent), mobility (19 percent) and freedom (51 percent). It was also found that drivers in the country love to sing while driving.

Women perform much better compared to men on verbal and emotional intelligence, said Fagan. He added that according to evolutionary theory, our early female ancestors developed a strong sense of fear for things that posed danger to them and their loved ones in the cave while men were out hunting. The instinct of "early warning" still remains active among women, which is why women drivers are heavily sensitive to unfavorable stimuli.

Tony Whitehorn, CEO Hyundai, said that the company is constantly working hard to have a better understanding of the factors that impacts the behavior of people when they are driving. By studying the emotions of drivers, Hyundai wants to help them have a great driving experience, added Whitehorn.

Fagan along with Hyundai built the globe's first Driving Emotion Test (DET), a study that involves facial coding technology, galvanic skin response, a heartache monitor and eye-tracking analysis to find out how a particular stimulus impacts human emotions while driving.