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How to Improve Decision Making and Acting Under Stress: The Effect of Training with and without Stress on Self-Defense Skills in Police Officers
Voigt L., Zinner C.
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology · 2023
External published research · Published literature
Discipline
Protection Sciences
Level of evidence
Controlled intervention study
DOI
10.1007/s11896-023-09607-0
Topics
Decision Making
What the study reports
An intervention study examining whether training under induced stress improves subsequent decision-making and action under pressure in police contexts.
The PROMACHOS reading
Judgment degrades under arousal unless it has been practised under arousal. Controlled, supervised stress exposure is a curriculum requirement, not a hazing ritual.
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