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Zusatztext 'Contributions include a richly international input of knowledge and understanding which extend to other non-military work-stress patterns. These are ever more necessary wherever the new computerised world of technology pushes into business and academia! commerce! the process engineering and construction industries. The need for vigilance and quick! effective decisions in emergency is always there' The RoSPA Occupational Safety and Health Journal! May 2008 'The book is useful to anyone who desires a better understanding of stress and its ability to influence human performance. It is particularly relevent to the military community given the nonconventional challenges in today's battlefields and their increasing complexity. Performance under Stress addresses the subject in a pragmatic way and also offers a detailed and perceptive account of the current limited understanding and prospective future directions of this field of study.' Military Review! September-October 2009 Informationen zum Autor Peter A. Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology! the Institute for Simulation and Training! and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Central Florida! USA. He currently holds a courtesy appointment as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and as an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Transportation Institute of the University of Michigan. Dr. James L. Szalma is an assistant professor in the Psychology Department! and is the director of the Performance Research Laboratory (PeRL)! at the University of Central Florida. Klappentext The world is a dangerous place. Many events have served to render it less safe and there are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress. This book is derived from a multiple university (MURI) project on stress and soldier performance on modern! electronic battlefield. Zusammenfassung The world is a dangerous place. Many events have served to render it less safe and there are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress. This book is derived from a multiple university (MURI) project on stress and soldier performance on modern, electronic battlefield. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Circumstances, 10 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...
