By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

TMQ asked why otherwise polite and considerate people turn into fiends behind the wheel. Imad Libbus of St. Paul, Minn., writes, "The answer comes from a well-known principle of social psychology: anonymity promotes antisocial behavior. People are more prone to violence or destruction when their face and/or identity is obscured. This can commonly happen in large groups (i.e. mobs). In an interesting psychological experiment, subjects were more likely to push a button and administer a painful sho ...

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