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  • Sidewalk Rage: Mental Illness or 'Altruistic Punishment?'

    02/24/2011 8:28:33 AM PST · by ETL · 41 replies
    TIME via Yahoo News ^ | Feb 21, 2011 | MAIA SZALAVITZ
    For many residents of New York City, our bodies are our cars. So rather than engaging in "road rage" against slow or erratic drivers on a highway, New Yorkers descend into "sidewalk rage," paroxysms of fury directed at people who exhibit irrational, obstructive walking behavior on Manhattan's crowded concrete. But is this reaction a sign of mental illness - or could it perhaps reflect an evolutionary adaptation that may have enabled the development of cooperation? (More on Time.com: Five Ways to Stop Stressing) I will admit personally to fits of pique when slow tourists fail to keep to the right,...