Doug Edwards wrote,
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Recent neurological research (Damasio) shows that decision making is
entirely emotional. Entirely. There's more. A transport industry study
finds that the operator of a vehicle is 1,000 times more likely to
accept a risk factor than a supervisor - yes, that's what it says,
being on the controls means you are one thousand times more likely to
take a chance, accept danger! Given that the figure is kinda high, you
can still relate to the general idea, can't you? (I'm following up on
this study and will report later.) What are we doing about this stuff?
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If the current focus of CRM is error management then the logical extension to
this is that we are looking at decision making - no decision (including the
decision to DO nothing) = no error. So...if DM is entirely emotional, what
does that mean; and what does it mean for DM training? Oh, I think I have the
answer, we will tell aircrew not to be emotional, that should do the trick!
Perhaps Doug can ellaborate on Domasio's thesis. Sometimes there is a big
step from physiology to psychology.
Cheers
Keith Hendy
DCIEM, Toronto, CANADA