Decision-Making Under Stress: Emerging Themes and Applications

by Martin,Lynne; Flin,Rhona

• ISBN13: 9780291398567
• ISBN10: 0291398561
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-28
• Publisher: Gower Technical

Summary

This is a state-of-the-art review of psychological theory, research and practice on decision making in high pressure and emergency situations. The book focuses on the experienced decision makers who deal with such risks, principally on flight decks, at civil emergencies, in industrial settings and military environments.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
1. Introduction	1	(10)
Rhona Flin
Eduardo Salas
Michael Strub
Lynne Martin
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives on NDM	11	(74)
2. The current status of the naturalistic decision making framework	11	(18)
Gary Klein
3. In search of naturalistic decisions	29	(14)
John S. Pruitt
Janis A. Cannon-Bowers
Eduardo Salas
4. Stress and naturalistic decision making: Strengthening the weak links	43	(24)
Judith Orasanu
5. Merging paradigms: Decision making, management, and cognitive control	67	(18)
Jens Rasmussen
Part 2 Decisions in civil emergencies	85	(64)
6. Critical incident management simulation	85	(10)
Jonathan Crego
Tony Spinks
7. A framework for building and testing models of recorded team decision making	95	(12)
George Kuk
8. Decision making patterns in major fire-fighting and rescue operations	107	(9)
Lars Fredholm
9. Psychological research and development in the London Fire Brigade	116	(10)
Eugene Burke
10. Design of the natural: An engineering process for naturalistic decision making	126	(11)
John Dowell
Walter Smith
Nicholas Pidgeon
11. Head-mounted video recording: A methodology for studying naturalistic decision making	137	(12)
Mary Omodei
Alexander Wearing
Jim McLennan
Part 3 Military command decisions	149	(76)
12. On-line coping with uncertainty: Beyond the reduce, quantify and plug heuristic	149	(12)
Raanan Lipshitz
13. Improving critical thinking	161	(9)
Marvin S. Cohen
Jared T. Freeman
14. Team adaptation and co-ordination training	170	(15)
Daniel Serfaty
Elliot E. Entin
15. Dynamic decision making in non-routine situations	185	(8)
Jose H. Kerstholt
16. Surrender at Perevolochna: A case study of perspective and action control in decision making under stress	193	(12)
Henry Montgomery
17. Enhancing effective decision making by information management techniques	205	(10)
Shlomo Breznitz
Hasida Ben-Zur
18. Military decision support	215	(10)
Robert Fernall
Part 4 Decisions on the flight deck	225	(46)
19. Military pilot performance -- dynamic decision making in its extreme	225	(8)
Maud Angelborg-Thanderz
20. Understanding expert aviator judgment	233	(10)
Richard S. Jensen
James Guilke
Robert Tigner
21. Decision making training for aircrew	243	(9)
Glyn David
22. Selection for stressful jobs: Is the defence mechanism test the solution?	252	(9)
Lennart Sjoberg
Hakan Kallmen
Max Scharnberg
23. Pilot mental workload and situational awareness -- psychological models of the pilot	261	(10)
Erland Svensson
Part 5 Analysing decision making under stress	271	(64)
24. Strategies for adapting to time pressure	271	(9)
A. John Maule
25. Emergency decision making -- A wider decision framework?	280	(11)
Lynne Martin
Rhona Flin
Jan Skriver
26. Decision making in complex situations: Cognitive and motivational limitations	291	(10)
Harold Schaub
27. Differentiation and consolidation theory	301	(14)
Ola Svenson
28. Analysing team skills	315	(11)
John Annett
29. Toward an understanding of stress on organizational social systems in complex, dynamic environments	326	(9)
Breena E. Coates
Appendix one Decision Making Under Stress Conference -- participants and affiliations	335