Cognitive Biases and Time Stress in Team Decision Making

Abstract

This experiment investigates the impact of time stress on the decision making performance of command and control teams. Two person teams were trained in a set of simple decision procedures. Some of these procedures required subjects to make judgments that were counter to normal heuristic decision processing. The principle hypothesis was that these decision procedures would be vulnerable-to-bias, and would therefore be more vulnerable to the effects of time stress than other decision procedures. The results support this hypothesis. In addition, the results suggest that the subjects adapted inappropriately to time stress. As time stress increased, they began to use a decision processing strategy that was less effective than the strategy they were trained to use. Team Decision Making, cognitive Bias.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA251153

Entities

People

  • Bhashyam Nallappa
  • Michael O’connor
  • Mir-masood Seyed-solorforough
  • Paul E. Lehner
  • Stephen Sak
  • Theresa Mullin

Organizations

  • George Mason University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Computers
  • Decision Theory
  • Errors
  • Experimental Design
  • Fighter Bombers
  • Judgment
  • Literature
  • Military Research
  • Natural Languages
  • Pilot Studies
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surveillance
  • Workload

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control