Conflict

How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-062344-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions is about making hard choices--where all outcomes are potentially negative. The authors draw on interviews conducted with soldiers about the situations they faced and the decisions they made at war. These are vivid and sometimes distressing stories. They form the data from which the authors explore the cognitive processes associated with choice, commitment to action and (sometimes) error, as well as goal directed thinking, innovation and courage. By referring to real cases, Conflict invites readers to consider their own responses under extreme circumstances and ask themselves how they would choose between difficult options. In doing so this book will go some way to helping readers understand what it feels like when choosing between least-worst decisions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shortland

Shortland, Neil D.

Alison, Laurence J.

Moran, Joseph M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of illustrations

- Acknowledgements

- Foreword by Col. Tim Collins

- Preface

- 1. Decisional Conflict: From Best to Least-Worst

- 2. Military Decision Making: Doctrine, Rationality and Field-Based Approaches

- 3. The Science of Selecting Least-Worst Options

- 4. Situational Awareness

- 5. Formulating Plans

- 6. Executing Plans

- 7. Team Learning

- 8. Least-Worst Decision Making 'in extremis'

- 9. Thoughts that Haunt

- 10. How do Soldiers Do What They Do and What Can We Learn From Them?

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Shortland, Laurence Alison, and Joseph Moran are interested in social cognition and the processes by which soldiers make sense of uncertain, high-risk, ambiguous, complex or contradictory information. They are especially interested in decision inertia and the use of simulated environments to study and train practitioners to overcome decision inertia.