Happiness v misery on the roads

[Martin Cassini]

Clearly we're going to be more tolerant and make better judgements if we’re in a frame of mind of relaxed alert rather than a state of stress. The Observer had a piece about Warwick Business School economics professor, Andrew Oswald, an expert on the relationship between economics and mental health. "Human happiness has positive causal effects on productivity … Positive emotions invigorate human beings, while negative emotions have the opposite effect." This is another psychological nail in the coffin for vexatious traffic regulation which demands disproportionate attention and makes us miserable.