JOHN TRINKAUS, of the Zicklin School of Business, studies ordinary people going about their everyday lives. One of his specialities is the study of dishonest or anti-social behaviour. In his 25 years of research, one group of people has come to stand out as decidedly more likely than others to push boundaries. These are not disaffected teenagers or moist football supporters. They are women van drivers.
Trinkhaus's finding is perhaps best illustrated by his extensive work secretly monitoring a supermarket's 'ten items or fewer' checkout over a period of nine years. as many of us have seen for ourselves, Trinkhaus found that some shoppers using this lane often had somewhat more items than they should in their basket; some cunningly placed their item in groups of ten and paid for each group separately. he found that a very high proportion of theses supermarket lane cheats were female van drivers. Furthermore, he has shown that a good deal more women than men van drivers break the speed limit, which he suspects is because they may have an unconscious need to out-do behaviour associated with men.
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