Training with anxiety: Short-and long-term effects on police officers' shooting behavior under pressure

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 277-288

  Nieuwenhuys, Arne ^a   Oudejans, Raôul R D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attentional control theory; Choking under pressure; Perceptual motor performance; Police

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SKILL RETENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BLINKING; FEMALE; FIREARMS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POLICE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEACHING; TIME;

EID: 80755188998     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-011-0396-x     Document Type: Article

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