The effects of physical threat on team processes during complex task performance

Small Group Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 700-729

  Kamphuis, Wim ^a   Gaillard, Anthony W K ^b   Vogelaar, Ad L W ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS DEFENCE ACADEMY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

leadership; problem solving; stress; teams; threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855168270     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496411407522     Document Type: Article

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