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Although it is widely believed that high quality
judgements and operational readiness involve
experiential as well as analytical processing, field
studies are rare in decision research. A series of
empirical studies were therefore directed at
studying the underlying affective and cognitive
processes in risk, feelings, and operational
readiness within a military setting. Three different
projects are reported, and altogether 8 different
military samples participated. Mixed methods and
designs were applied, ranging from the
classical 'psychometric risk approach', panel data,
and field experiments. This work suggests that
perceived risk among military personnel relates to
risk exposure, qualitative aspects of the hazard,
and to anticipations of anxiousness. Risk perception
seems less affected by anticipatory/experienced
emotions or experimentally induced affect. In
general, this work supports the notion of ''affective
rationality'' in subjective risk perception and
operational readiness.
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Therese Kobbeltvedt (Dr. Psychol.) is Associate Professor of
Psychology at the University of Bergen, and Associate Professor
of Management at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration. She graduated from University of Bergen, Norway
as psychologist. Her doctoral work was financed by the
Norwegian Department of Defence.
