| Autor: |
Yancey JR; Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)., Bowyer CB; Department of Psychology., Roberts KE; Department of Psychology., Jones D; Department of Psychology., Joyner KJ; Department of Psychology., Foell J; Department of Psychology., McGlade EC; Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)., Yurgelun-Todd DA; Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)., Boot WR; Department of Psychology., Patrick CJ; Department of Psychology. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance [J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform] 2022 Jun; Vol. 48 (6), pp. 549-562. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 21. |
| DOI: |
10.1037/xhp0000995 |
| Abstrakt: |
Understanding factors that influence behavioral performance in high-pressure contexts is relevant to critical occupations such as first responders, military personnel, and frontline medical workers. A recent study by Yancey et al. (2019) demonstrated an association between boldness, a biobehavioral trait reflecting social dominance and fearlessness, and enhanced task-switching performance during threat of shock relative to a no-shock (safe) condition. This study used a sustained threat manipulation in which cues signaling possible shock were present throughout blocks of multiple task trials. Here, we extended this work by evaluating the relationship between boldness and task-switching performance under acute threat of shock conditions, in which cues signaling possible shock occurred during individual task trials, intermingled with safe trials. Participants ( N = 79) completed a task-switching procedure involving acute threat of shock in which unwarned noise probes were presented to elicit blink-startle responses. Boldness was associated with better switching performance under threat versus safe conditions, with high-bold participants who exhibited low startle potentiation during threat showing the best performance. These findings provide additional evidence that dispositional boldness is a meaningful individual difference characteristic related to effective performance in high-pressure situations and have implications for personnel selection and assignment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved). |
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