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Performance Under Stress (Paperback)
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Performance Under Stress (Paperback)
Series: Human Factors in Defence
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The world is a dangerous place and recent events have served to
make it less safe. There are many arenas of conflict and even
combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential
expression of stress; you stand in imminent danger and live with
the knowledge that you may be attacked, injured or even killed at
any moment. How do people perform under these conditions? How do
they keep a heightened level of vigilance when nothing may happen
in their immediate location for weeks or even months? What happens
when the bullets actually start flying? How is it you distinguish
friend from foe, and each from innocent bystanders when in
immediate peril of your life? Can we design technology to help
people make good decisions in these ultimately hazardous
situations? To what degree does your membership in a team act to
dissipate these particular effects? Can we generate sufficiently
stressful field exercises to simulate these conditions and can we
train and/or select those most able to withstand such adverse
conditions? How will the next generation of servicemen deal with
these inherent problems? These are the sorts of questions that
Performance Under Stress addresses. This book is derived largely
from a multiple-year, multiple university initiative (MURI) on
stress and soldier performance on the modern, electronic
battlefield. It involved leading researchers from many institutions
who have brought their individual expertise to bear on these
crucial, contemporary concerns. United by a common research
framework, these groups attacked the issue from different
methodological and conceptual approaches, ranging from traditional
laboratory modeling and experimentation, to realistic simulations;
from involved field exercises to personal experiences of actual
combat conditions. The insights generated have been distilled and
presented as a benchmark of current understanding and provide
future directions for research in this arena. Although this work
focuses on soldier stress and soldier performance, the principles
that are derived extend well beyond this single application. Their
findings can be applied to people facing the demands of the
business world or research as much as to those who meet life or
death situations, such as homeland security, first responders, and
law enforcement personnel.
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