Shooting behaviour: How working memory and negative emotionality influence police officer shoot decisions

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 707-717

  Kleider, Heather M ^a   Parrott, Dominic J ^a   King, Tricia Z ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOTAPE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 78650474238     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1580     Document Type: Article

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