Decision making under stress : emerging themes and applications / edited by Rhona Flin ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flin, Rhona H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Problem solving.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1997]

Contents:

Part 1 Theoretical perspectives on NDM

2. The current status of the naturalistic decision making framework / Gary Klein 11

3. In search of naturalistic decisions / John S. Pruitt, Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Eduardo Salas 29

4. Stress and naturalistic decision making: Strengthening the weak links / Judith Orasanu 43

5. Merging paradigms: Decision making, management, and cognitive control / Jens Rasmussen 67

Part 2 Decisions in civil emergencies

6. Critical incident management simulation / Jonathan Crego, Tony Spinks 85

7. A framework for building and testing models of recorded team decision making / George Kuk 95

8. Decision making patterns in major fire-fighting and rescue operations / Lars Fredholm 107

9. Psychological research and development in the London Fire Brigade / Eugene Burke 116

10. Design of the natural: An engineering process for naturalistic decision making / John Dowell, Walter Smith, Nicholas Pidgeon 126

11. Head-mounted video recording: A methodology for studying naturalistic decision making / Mary Omodei, Alexander Wearing, Jim McLennan 137

Part 3 Military command decisions

12. On-line coping with uncertainty: Beyond the reduce, quantify and plug heuristic / Raanan Lipshitz 149

13. Improving critical thinking / Marvin S. Cohen, Jared T. Freeman 161

14. Team adaptation and co-ordination training / Daniel Serfaty, Elliot E. Entin 170

15. Dynamic decision making in non-routine situations / Jose H. Kerstholt 185

16. Surrender at Perevolochna: A case study of perspective and action control in decision making under stress / Henry Montgomery 193

17. Enhancing effective decision making by information management techniques / Shlomo Breznitz, Hasida Ben-Zur 205

18. Military decision support / Robert Fernall 215

Part 4 Decisions on the flight deck

19. Military pilot performance - dynamic decision making in its extreme / Maud Angelborg-Thanderz 225

20. Understanding expert aviator judgment / Richard S. Jensen, James Guilke, Robert Tigner 233

21. Decision making training for aircrew / Glyn David 243

22. Selection for stressful jobs: Is the defence mechanism test the solution? / Lennart Sjoberg, Hakan Kallmen, Max Scharnberg 252

23. Pilot mental workload and situational awareness - psychological models of the pilot / Erland Svensson 261

Part 5 Analysing decision making under stress

24. Strategies for adapting to time pressure / A. John Maule 271

25. Emergency decision making - A wider decision framework? / Lynne Martin, Rhona Flin, Jan Skriver 280

26. Decision making in complex situations: Cognitive and motivational limitations / Harold Schaub 291

27. Differentiation and consolidation theory / Ola Svenson 301

28. Analysing team skills / John Annett 315

29. Toward an understanding of stress on organizational social systems in complex, dynamic environments / Breena E. Coates 326

Appendix 1 Decision Making Under Stress Conference - participants and affiliations 335.

Notes:

"This volume represents the collected papers from an international conference ... held in Aberdeen, Scotland in September 1996"--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0291398561

OCLC:

37631157