Table of Contents

1. The Automotive System2. The Psychology of the Car3. Automobile Personalities and (Co)identities4. Feelings, Emotions and the Car5. Automobility, Gender and Sex6. Speed7. Rights, Authority, and the Police8. Community, Friends, and Family9. Risk and Death10. The Clinical Psychology of the Car11. Barriers to Automobile Change12. Sustainable Automotive Futures

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Investigates the individual and collective psychologies of automobile culture with a view toward reaching more sustainable transport systems

About the Author

Stefan Gössling has professorships in Sweden at both Linnaeus University and Lund University, and is Research Coordinator of the Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism at the Western Norway Research Institute. He has worked in sustainability and transport for more than two decades, is the author or editor of 11 Transportation books (almost exclusively with Routledge), and has published more than 100 papers in leading Transportation journals.