Liu Jiakun, Wang Xingpeng, Zhu Lei
Department of Psychology, Fudan Univerity, Handan Road 220, Shanghai, 200433, China.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Aug 4;13(1):865. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-03211-z.
Computer technology has been increasingly used to enhance driving safety, however, as a risk factor for driving safety, how anger can be effectively controlled by computer technology remains to be explored. Thus, the present study tested the impact of two computer-aided emotion regulation strategies (expressive suppression vs. cognitive reappraisal) on anger and risky driving behaviors in a virtual environment. After anger was triggered, participants were instructed by pre-set computer recording segments to use the above two strategies for emotion regulation. During driving, their facial expressions were recorded by a camera. It was found that only computer-aided expressive suppression could effectively regulate anger and reduce risky driving behaviors (i.e., angular overspeed and lateral acceleration overspeed). These findings suggest that the computer-aided expressive suppression has the potential to reduce risky driving behaviors for Chinese drivers and offer insights for the development of computer-aided approaches.
计算机技术已越来越多地用于提高驾驶安全性，然而，作为驾驶安全的一个风险因素，如何通过计算机技术有效控制愤怒仍有待探索。因此，本研究在虚拟环境中测试了两种计算机辅助情绪调节策略（表达抑制与认知重评）对愤怒和危险驾驶行为的影响。在引发愤怒后，通过预设的计算机录音片段指导参与者使用上述两种策略进行情绪调节。在驾驶过程中，用摄像头记录他们的面部表情。结果发现，只有计算机辅助的表达抑制能够有效调节愤怒并减少危险驾驶行为（即角向超速和横向加速度超速）。这些发现表明，计算机辅助的表达抑制有可能减少中国驾驶员的危险驾驶行为，并为计算机辅助方法的开发提供见解。
