What Bumper Stickers REALLY Say

If you're behind a car with a bumper sticker, you might want to STAY behind them!

Cars with bumper stickers could be a hazard, REGARDLESS of the message on there. A psychological study out of Colorado State University revealed that drivers with bumper stickers were more aggressive behind the wheel. In the study, the drivers who expressed themselves with bumper stickers and decals had a higher tendency to express themselves in other ways. Honking, road rage, tailgating and flipping the bird was much more prevalent in the sticker group than the clean bumper crowd.

The aggressive results included those with vanity plates and other markers on the car. Even parents of honor students and truck drivers with Confederate flags fit the profile. And political statements had an even broader effect, triggering anger in drivers around them and eliciting dirty looks and gestures.