Situational pressures on aviation decision making: Goal seduction and situation aversion

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 556-560

  Bearman, Chris ^a   Paletz, Susannah B F ^b   Orasanu, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Goal seduction; Plan continuation errors; Situation aversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVIATION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; AVIATION; DECISION MAKING; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 66949119646     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2363.2009     Document Type: Article

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