Psychology and culture during long-duration space missions

Kanas, Nick; Sandal, Gro Mjeldheim; Boyd, Jennifer E.; Gushin, Vadim; Manzey, Dietrich; North, Regina; Leon, Gloria R.; Suedfeld, Peter; Bishop, Sheryl L.; Fiedler, Edna R.; Inoue, Natsuhiko; Johannes, Bernd; Kealey, Daniel J.; Kraft, Norbert; Matsuzaki, Ichiyo; Musson, David; Palinkas, Lawrence A.; Salnitskiy, Vyacheslav; Sipes, Walter; Stuster, Jack; Wang, Jun

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.12.005

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“…Recommendations will be useful for astronauts and future candidates for long missions in order to establish a Moon base or on Mars [33]. Disagreements and social problems are a reality in outer space.…”

Section: Countermeasures To Improve Psychological Balance Among Astromentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been showed on research that the motivation of the astronaut can change at three stages of their expedition, finding differences from preflight to in-flight stages [5]. For this reason, the application of different group dynamics depending on the phase (including the post-flight and readaptation) is essential [33]. The other aspect to consider is the arousal.…”

Section: Aspects To Include In An Educational Program On Space Travelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Space Travels and Empathy: A New Area of Educational Intervention

Ramón¹

2017

Empathy - An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Empathy is a relevant factor which the astronauts must own to face with long missions. In fact, the absence of this can be a cause of a fail mission. Due to the fact space projects involve a great invest, the way of developing empathy on crew and the teaching of strategies is a priority. For all this, the main goal of this paper was to analyze the current situation of the research on empathy concerning space travels. The specific objectives were (a) to find out how this issue and other psychological variables were related to astronauts and space travels and (b) to propose aspects for the design of an educational program to encourage people to solve social problems and develop social skills. For that, a review was made by using diferent databases and diferent resources by studying several variables related to empathy and long-duration space missions. Findings show that the psychological variables will be specially relevant in future missions and space colonization, as for instance, on Mars or the Moon. Conclusions can be useful to design educational programs to train crew members and control mission personnel on empathy and problem solving.

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Section: Countermeasures To Improve Psychological Balance Among Astromentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aspects To Include In An Educational Program On Space Travelsmentioning

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Space Travels and Empathy: A New Area of Educational Intervention

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2017

Empathy - An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Perspective

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“…Manned spaceflight continues to receive worldwide attention as it is the primary way for humans to fulfill their curiosity about the universe. Given the risk and cost of space exploration (Steimle and Norberg, 2013 ), it is widely accepted that astronauts should possess a certain profile of physical and psychological characteristics (Helmreich, 1983 ; Christensen and Talbot, 1986 ; Garshnek, 1989 ; Endo et al, 1994 ; Rose et al, 1994 ; Santy and Jones, 1994 ; Sekiguchi et al, 1994 ; Ark and Curtis, 1999 ; Kanas et al, 2002 , 2009 ; Kane et al, 2005 ; Palinkas, 2007 ). Among many potential characteristics, spatial cognitive abilities such as mental rotation are generally believed to play a key role in performing space tasks (Shepard and Cooper, 1982 ; Stransky et al, 2010 ; Zhang and Cao, 2010 ).…”

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The influence of spatial ability and experience on performance during spaceship rendezvous and docking

Zhang

Tian³

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Front. Psychol.

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Manual rendezvous and docking (manual RVD) is a challenging space task for astronauts. Previous research showed a correlation between spatial ability and manual RVD skills among participants at early stages of training, but paid less attention to experts. Therefore, this study tried to explore the role of spatial ability in manual RVD skills in two groups of trainees, one relatively inexperienced and the other experienced operators. Additionally, mental rotation has been proven essential in RVD and was tested in this study among 27 male participants, 15 novices, and 12 experts. The participants performed manual RVD tasks in a high fidelity simulator. Results showed that experience moderated the relation between mental rotation ability and manual RVD performance. On one hand, novices with high mental rotation ability tended to perform that RVD task more successfully; on the other hand, experts with high mental rotation ability showed not only no performance advantage in the final stage of the RVD task, but had certain disadvantages in their earlier processes. Both theoretical and practical implications were discussed.

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“…Among these are social comparisons and competition, ostracism and exclusions, cliques, differences in gender, age, occupation, and culture ineffective leadership, restricted and prolonged social contacts, and separation from the usual social network of family and friends (e.g., Kanas et al, 2009;Leon et al, 2011;Stuster, Bachelard, & Suedfeld, 2000;Suedfeld, 2010). As a psychologist who conducted debriefing interviews at the end of winterings in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic polar stations, the first author found that generally winterers are aware that they had had to adapt to many of the less-than-pleasant and transitory aspects of Antarctic life.…”

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“…Long-term sojourns in a polar station can produce cognitive decrements such as lapses of attention (Kanas et al, 2009;Palinkas & Suedfeld, 2008). Beyond mere absentmindedness, prolonged lapses of attention are a familiar occurrence in Antarctic stations.…”

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Affective, Social, and Cognitive Outcomes During a 1-Year Wintering in Concordia

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Suedfeld

Weiss

et al. 2016

Environment and Behavior

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This study investigated time patterns and the relationships between perceived stress, recovery, control, attention lapses, and defense mechanisms (DM) during a 12-month wintering in Concordia polar station with an international crew of 14 volunteers. This ICE (Isolated, Confined, Extreme) environment induced some stress, mainly in the social dimension and showed relationships (a) between DM and both stress and recovery and (b) between recovery and perceived control, highlighting the roles of DM and control in psychological adaptation. These results offer additional insights into the affective, social, and cognitive processes involved in adaptation. The findings suggest that preventive psychological countermeasures should be developed for crew members to counteract detrimental psychological outcomes and to improve adaptation to long-duration ICE situations such as planned human interplanetary space missions.

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Psychology and culture during long-duration space missions

Cited by 155 publications

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Space Travels and Empathy: A New Area of Educational Intervention

Space Travels and Empathy: A New Area of Educational Intervention

The influence of spatial ability and experience on performance during spaceship rendezvous and docking

Affective, Social, and Cognitive Outcomes During a 1-Year Wintering in Concordia

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