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Human Factors Psychology in Surgery

2019
Human factors is a field dedicated to studying how to improve work environments based on human capabilities and limitations. There are many areas where human factors can improve surgery, especially as surgery continues to evolve and new tools, technology, and techniques are developed.
Brittany L. Anderson-Montoya, Mark W. Scerbo   +1 more
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Aviation Psychology and Human Factors

Ergonomics, 2011
Aviation Psychology and Human Factors, by Monica Martinussen and David R. Hunter, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, 240 pp., £56.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781439808436 This book tries to provide a complete overvi...
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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: Psychological Factors and Physical Disease from the Perspective of Human Psychoneuroimmunology

Annual Review of Psychology, 1996
▪ Abstract  This review addresses the importance of studies of human psychoneuroimmunology in understanding the role of psychological factors in physical illness. First, it provides psychologically and biologically plausible explanations for how psychological factors might influence immunity and immune system–mediated disease.
S, Cohen, T B, Herbert
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Integrating Sports Psychology into a human factors framework

International Journal of Sport Psychology, 2016
The emergence of cross-disciplinary research among the many sub disciplines of psychology is an encouraging trend. In sports psychology alone, the discoveries made in areas such as stress and performance, emotional and cognitive states, and situations could he of immense use to teams in both military and industrial contexts. However, while an abundance
Reynolds, Rosemarie, Salas, Eduardo
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Planning for a Ph.D. Progpam in Human Factors Psychology

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 1986
Trained Human Factors experts are being sought increasingly in government, industry and academia. In response, program accreditation guidelines have been recommended for adoption by the Human Factors Society in order to set professional training standards.
Richard D. Gilson, Gena L. Cox
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Human Factors in Reliability and the Psychology of Communications

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 1986
By developing ideas which attempt to identify and explain some of the more commonly occurring psychological mechanisms of human error this article aims to provide a background of understanding which will be helpful to the systems analyst in his task of predictive reliability assessment.
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An Overview of Human Factors Psychology

2012
AbstractThis chapter presents a contemporary overview of human factors psychology, including its origins, core problems, methodological approaches, and overviews of state-of-the-art research in three key areas likely to be relevant to industrial/organizational psychology.
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Citations of Research in Engineering Psychology and Human Factors

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting, 1986
Comparisons were made of citations of research publications in six literature reviews of engineering psychology: Fitts (1958); Melton and Briggs (1960); Chapanis (1963); Poulton (1966) and Alluisi and Morgan (1976). The frequencies of literature citation were compared to those presented by O'Hare (1985) who analyzed the literature citations by Wickens ...
Nancy S. Anderson, Jani Gabriel Byrne
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Cognitive psychology and human factors engineering of virtual reality

2017 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), 2017
This position paper summarizes the author's research interest in Cognitive Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction in the imseCAVE, a CAVE-like system in the University of Hong Kong. Several areas of interest were explored while finding the thesis topic for the Ph.D. research.
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Biological and Psychological Factors in Human Aggression

1991
Aggression is a complex phenomenon complicated by a host of definitional problems as well as by the wide range of biological, psychological and experimental factors that play a role in its genesis and interact with each other in subtle ways. The term ″aggression″ may be used in a positive sense to mean ambitious and assertive, as in “aggressive ...
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