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Military Psychology

Four Volume Set
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November 2011 | 1 496 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Military members operate within situations and environments that most people never experience. They must be superbly trained, physically fit, and emotionally strong and are burdened with a degree of responsibility and risk found in few other occupations.

The discipline of military psychology involves the systematic and scientific study of the selection, training, adaptation, and performance of soldiers. Military psychology, by necessity, is a heterogeneous field of inquiry. On the one hand, it draws on all subdisciplines of psychology to understand the variables that affect soldier performance while on the other hand, lessons learned from military psychology are of vital importance to all areas of psychology.

The purpose, therefore, of this collection of readings in military psychology is to capture significant developments from military psychology that are of general interest and importance to all psychologists and to promote understanding in human behavior in challenging contexts.

Volume I: Selection, Training, and Performance captures significant advances in how soldiers are selected, assigned, and trained.

Volume II: Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology includes topics of human factors engineering, cognitive engineering, ergonomics, situational awareness, and soldier performance.

Volume III: Stress and Resilience focuses on classic and contemporary studies of combat stress and its consequences.

Volume IV: Leadership, Culture, and Morale advances the understanding of leading people in the contexts of dangerous environments.



 


 
VOLUME ONE: SELECTION, TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE
 
PART ONE: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MILITARY
Robert Yerkes
Psychology in Relation to the War
Walter Bingham
Military Psychology in War and Peace
James Driskell and Beckett Olmstead
Psychology and the Military
Research Applications and Trends

 
 
PART TWO: SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
Barry Scribner et al
Are Smart Tankers Better?
AFQT and Military A Productivity

 
Judith Fernandez
Soldier Quality and Job Performance in Team Tasks
Richard Goffin and David Woycheshin
An Empirical Method of Determining Employee Competencies/KSAOs from Task-Based Job Analysis
John Campbell
An Overview of the Army Selection and Classification Project (Project A)
Leaetta Hough et al
Criterion-Related Validities of Personality Constructs and the Effect of Response Distortion on Those Validities
David Alderton, John Wolfe and Gerald Larson
The ECAT Battery
Reyhan Bilgiç and Canan S mer
Predicting Military Performance from Specific Personality Measures
A Validity Study

 
 
PART THREE: TRAINING AND TEAMS
Robert Gagne
Military Training and Principles of Learning
Joseph Hagman and Andrew Rose
Retention of Military Tasks
A Review

 
Eduardo Salas, Laura Milham and Clint Bowers
Training Evaluation in the Military
Misconceptions, Opportunities and Challenges

 
Herbert Bell
The Effectiveness of Distributed Mission Training
Aharon Tziner and Dov Eden
Effects of Crew Composition on Crew Performance
Does the Whole Equal the Sum of Its Parts?

 
Laura Strater et al
Measuring Platoon Leader Situation Awareness in a Virtual Decision-Making Exercise
 
VOLUME TWO: APPLIED EXPERIMENTAL AND ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY
 
PART ONE: PILOT PERFORMANCE/AVIATION HFE PILOT
Thomas Caretta, David Perry Jr and Malcolm James Ree
Prediction of Situational Awareness in F-15 Pilots
John Caldwell et al
The Effects of 37 Hours of Continuous Wakefulness on the Physiological Arousal, Cognitive Performance, Self-Reported Mood and Simulator Flight Performance of F-117A Pilots
John Caldwell et al
Are Individual Differences in Fatigue Vulnerability Related to Baseline Differences in Cortical Activation?
Wen-Chin Li and Don Harris
Pilot Error and Its Relationship with Higher Organizational Levels
HFACS Analysis of 523 Accidents

 
Fred Previc et al
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Flight Performance, Instrument Scanning and Physiological Arousal in Pilots
 
PART TWO: SITUATION AWARENESS/DECISION-MAKING
George Kaempf et al
Decision-Making in Complex Naval Command-and-Control Environments
Josephine Randel, H. Lauren Pugh and Stephen Reed
Differences in Expert and Novice Situation Awareness in Naturalistic Decision-Making
Michael Matthews, Laura Strater and Mica Endsley
Situation Awareness Requirements for Infantry Platoon Leaders
Joseph DiVita et al
Verification of the Change Blindness Phenomenon While Managing Critical Events on a Combat Information Display
W. Todd Maddox et al
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Information-Integration Categorization
Paul Salmon et al
Decisions, Decisions… and Even More Decisions
Evaluation of a Digitized Mission Support System in the Land Warfare Domain

 
 
PART THREE: WORKLOAD/DISPLAYS
E. Svensson et al
Information Complexity
Mental Workload and Performance in Combat Aircraft

 
Michael Skinner and Peter Simpson
Workload Issues in Military Tactical Airlift
Michelle Yeh et al
Head up versus Head down
The Costs of Imprecision, Unreliability and Visual Clutter on Cue Effectiveness for Display Signaling

 
James Merlo, Aaron Duley and Peter Hancock
Cross-Modal Congruency Benefits for Combined Tactile and Visual Signaling
 
PART FOUR: ROBOTICS/AUTOMATION
Mary Cummings and Stephanie Guerlain
Developing Operator Capacity Estimates for Supervisory Control of Autonomous Vehicles
Jessie Chen and Peter Terrence
Effects of Imperfect Automation and Individual Differences on Concurrent Performance of Military and Robotics Tasks in a Simulated Multitasking Environment
 
VOLUME THREE: STRESS AND RESILIENCE
 
PART ONE: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY/COMBAT STRESS/PTSD
Rhonda Cornum, Michael Matthews and Martin Seligman
Comprehensive Soldier Fitness
Building Resilience in a Challenging Institutional Context

 
A 20-Year Follow-up

 
Kenneth Hyams, Stephen Wignall and Robert Roswell
War Syndromes and Their Evaluations
From the U.S. Civil War to the Persian Gulf War

 
Joseph Boscarino
Post-Traumatic Stress and Associated Disorders among Vietnam Veterans
The Significance of Combat Exposure and Social Support

 
Inge Bramson, Anja Dirkzwager and Henk van der Ploeg
Pre-Deployment Personality Traits and Exposure to Trauma as Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms
A Prospective Study of Former Peacekeepers

 
 
PART TWO : RESILIENCE
Michael Matthews et al
Character Strengths and Virtues of Developing Military Leaders
An International Comparison

 
Paul Bartone
Hardiness Protects against War-Related Stress in Army Reserve Forces
Salvatore Maddi
Relevance of Hardiness Assessment and Training to the Military Context
Daniel King et al
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a National Sample of Female and Male Vietnam Veterans
Risk Factors, War-Zone Stressors and Resilience-Recovery Variables

 
George Bonanno, Courtney Rennicke and Sharon Dekel
Self-Enhancement among High-Exposure Survivors of the September 11 Terrorist Attack
Resilience or Social Maladjustment?

 
Karen Reivich, Martin Seligman and Sharon McBride
Master Resilience Training in the U.S. Army
 
PART THREE: POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH
Carolyn Aldwin, Michael Levenson and Avron Spiro III
Vulnerability and Resilience to Combat Exposure
Can Stress Have Lifelong Effects?

 
Adriana Feder et al
Post-Traumatic Growth in Former Vietnam Prisoners of War
Steve Powell et al
Post-Traumatic Growth after War
A Study with Former Refugees and Displaced People in Sarajevo

 
Shira Maguen et al
Post-Traumatic Growth among Gulf War I Veterans
The Predictive Role of Deployment-Related Experiences and Background Characteristics

 
Laura Riolli, Victor Savicki and Everett Spain
Positive Emotions in Traumatic Conditions
Mediation of Appraisal and Mood for Military Personnel

 
Michael Matthews
Toward a Positive Military Psychology
 
VOLUME FOUR: LEADERSHIP, CULTURE AND MORALE
 
PART ONE: LEADERSHIP
Micha Popper et al
The Capacity to Lead
Major Psychological Differences between Leaders and Non-Leaders

 
Paul Bartone et al
Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance
Bernard Bass et al
Predicting Unit Performance by Assessing Transformational and Transactional Leadership
Thomas Williams
Strategic Leader Readiness and Competencies for Asymmetric Warfare
Leonard Wong, Paul Bliese and Dennis McGurk
Military Leadership
A Context-Specific Review

 
Barak Salmoni et al
Growing Strategic Leaders for Future Conflict
Patrick Sweeney
Do Soldiers Re-Evaluate Trust in Their Leaders Prior to Combat Operations?
Sean Hannah et al
A Framework for Examining Leadership in Extreme Contexts
Thomas Britt et al
How Leaders Can Influence the Impact That Stressors Have on Soldiers
Boas Shamir et al
Leadership and Social Identification in Military Units
Direct and Indirect Relationships

 
 
PART TWO: CULTURE AND MORALE
Rune Henriksen
Warriors in Combat
What Makes People Actively Fight in Combat?

 
Joseph Bendersky
'Panic'
The Impact of Le Bon's Crowd Psychology on U.S. Military Thought

 
Charles Kirke
Group Cohesion, Culture and Practice
Krista Langkamer and Kelly Ervin
Psychological Climate, Organizational Commitment and Morale
Implications for Army Captains' Career Intent

 
Fred Mael and Cathie Alderks
Leadership Team Cohesion and Subordinate Work Unit Morale and Performance
Mady Wechsler Segal
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions
Lolita Burrell et al
The Impact of Military Lifestyle Demands on Well-Being, Army and Family Outcomes
Gerry Wilcove, Michael Schwerin and Tracy Kline
Quality of Life in the U.S. Navy
Impact on Performance and Career Intentions

 

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