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Stress and Human Performance (Hardcover, New)
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Stress and Human Performance (Hardcover, New)
Series: Applied Psychology Series
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The pace of life in our high technology world has quickened.
Industries that do not become more efficient, often by requiring a
faster production turnaround with less slack, are superseded.
Because of this, workers face an environment in which they must
perform under more time pressure and under greater task load, in
which stress is more prevalent, and in which consequences of poor
performance are more critical than ever before.
The dominant, if unstated, psychoanalytic paradigm underlying much
stress research over the past fifty years has led to an emphasis on
coping and defense mechanisms and to a preoccupation with
disordered behavior and illness. Accordingly, almost any book with
"stress" in the title will invariably devote a considerable amount
of pages to topics such as stress-related disorders, clinical
interventions, stress and coping, psychopathology, illness, and
health issues.
This book presents basic and applied research that addresses the
effects of acute stress on performance. There are a large number of
applied settings that share the commonalities of high demand, high
risk performance conditions, including aviation; military
operations; nuclear, chemical, and other industrial settings;
emergency medicine; mining; firefighting; and police work, as well
as everyday settings in which individuals face stressors such as
noise, time pressure, and high task load.
This book focuses directly on the effects of acute stress--
defined as intense, novel stress of limited duration--on
performance. The effects of stress on task performance, decision
making, and team interaction are discussed, as well as the
interventions used to overcome them.
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