Emotional stress and information processing ability in the context of accident causation

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 591-602

  Kolich, Mike ^a   Wong Reiger, Durhane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accidents; Emotional stress; Information processing

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EMOTIONAL STRESS;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE; MALE; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TRAINING; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0033215342     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(98)00065-1     Document Type: Article

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