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Individual reactions to stress predict performance during a critical aviation incidentAcknowledgments: This research was funded by a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) awarded to the first and third authors. The authors would like to thank Captain Chris Coney-Jones, Captain Chris Nagle, and Flybe Exeter for their support with the recruitment of participants and data collection.
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AbstractUnderstanding the influence of stress on human performance is of theoretical and practicalimportance. An individual's reaction to stress predicts their subsequent performance; with a 'challenge' response to stress leading to better performance than a 'threat' response. However, this contention has not been tested in truly stressful environments with highly skilled individuals.Furthermore, the effect of challenge and threat responses on attentional control during visuomotor tasks is poorly understood. Thus, this study aimed to examine individual reactions to stress, and their influence on attentional control, among a cohort of commercial pilots performing a stressful flight competency assessment. Sixteen pilots performed an 'engine failure on take-off' scenario, in a high-fidelity flight simulator. Reactions to stress were indexed vi...