Performance under stress

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, injur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hancock, Peter A., 1953- (-), Szalma, James L.
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Aldershot : Ashgate c2008.
Edition:First edition
Series:Human factors in defence.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797977706719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Foreword; 1 Stress and Performance; 2 Contemporary and Future Battlefields: Soldier Stresses and Performance; 3 Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Workload, Stress, and Fatigue with Adaptive Automation; 4 Concentration, Stress and Performance; 5 Remote Command and Control, Trust, Stress, and Soldier Performance; 6 Changes in Soldier's Information Processing Capability under Stress; 7 Vigilance, Workload, and Stress; 8 Temporal Regulation and Temporal Cognition: Biological and Psychological Aspects of Time Stress
  • 9 Positive Psychology: Adaptation, Leadership, and Performance in Exceptional Circumstances10 Stress and Teams: How Stress Affects Decision Making at the Team Level; 11 Mitigating the Effects of Stress through Cognitive Readiness; 12 Fatigue and its Effect on Performance in Military Environments; 13 Multi-Modal Information Display under Stress; 14 Stress Exposure Training: An Event-Based Approach; 15 Augmenting Multi-Cultural Collaboration; 16 Individual Differences in Stress Reaction; 17 Stress and Performance: Experiences from Iraq; Index