Training for vigilance: The effect of knowledge of results format and dispositional optimism and pessimism on performance and stress

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-135

  Szalma, James L ^a   Hancock, Peter A ^a   Dember, William N ^b   Warm, Joel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER TERMINAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644604138     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712605X62768     Document Type: Article

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