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Decision-Making under Stress Emerging Themes and Applications

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ISBN-10: 0291398561

ISBN-13: 9780291398567

Edition: 1997

Authors: Eduardo Salas, Lynne Martin, Rhona Flin, Michael Straub, Rhona Flin

List price: $175.00
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In our high technology society, there is a growing demand for a better understanding of decision making in high risk situations in order to improve selection, training and operational performance.Decision Making Under Stress presents a state-of-the-art review of psychological theory, in research and practice, on decision making in high pressure and emergency situations. It focuses on the experienced decision makers who deal with such risks, principally on flight decks, at civil emergencies, in industrial settings and military environments.The 29 chapters cover a wide range of perspectives and applications from aviation, military, industry and the emergency services. The authors, all…    
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Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/28/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Theoretical perspectives on NDM
The current status of the naturalistic decision making framework
In search of naturalistic decisions
Stress and naturalistic decision making: Strengthening the weak links
Merging paradigms: Decision making, management, and cognitive control
Decisions in civil emergencies
Critical incident management simulation
A framework for building and testing models of recorded team decision making
Decision making patterns in major fire-fighting and rescue operations
Psychological research and development in the London Fire Brigade
Design of the natural: An engineering process for naturalistic decision making
Head-mounted video recording: A methodology for studying naturalistic decision making
Military command decisions
On-line coping with uncertainty: Beyond the reduce, quantify and plug heuristic
Improving critical thinking
Team adaptation and co-ordination training
Dynamic decision making in non-routine situations
Surrender at Perevolochna: A case study of perspective and action control in decision making under stress
Enhancing effective decision making by information management techniques
Military decision support
Decisions on the flight deck
Military pilot performance - dynamic decision making in its extreme
Understanding expert aviator judgment
Decision making training for aircrew
Selection for stressful jobs: Is the defence mechanism test the solution?
Pilot mental workload and situational awareness - psychological models of the pilot
Analysing decision making under stress
Strategies for adapting to time pressure
Emergency decision making - A wider decision framework?
Decision making in complex situations: Cognitive and motivational limitations
Differentiation and consolidation theory
Analysing team skills
Toward an understanding of stress on organizational social systems in complex, dynamic environments
Decision Making Under Stress Conference - participants and affiliations