A01=Joseph M. Moran
A01=Laurence J. Alison
A01=Neil D. Shortland
Author_Joseph M. Moran
Author_Laurence J. Alison
Author_Neil D. Shortland
Category1=Non-Fiction
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COP=United States
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ISBN13=9780190623449
Language_English
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PD=20190228
POP=New York
Price_€20 to €50
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Subject=Psychology
Subject=Warfare & Defence
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Product details
- ISBN 9780190623449
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 19mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
