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Military Research Psychology: Advancing Performance and Practice

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All facets of military psychology generally emphasize prevention of adverse responses to an assortment of environmental and psychological stresses that uniquely accompany military lifestyles and work situations. These include stressors encountered in: (1) military skills development training, and during readiness training and preparation for combat; (2) deployment of service members to unfamiliar and mostly harsh settings, usually overseas; and (3) ultimately, witnessing military personnel engaged in sustained combat, intermittent counterinsurgency operations, peacekeeping, or humanitarian and nation-building missions. This chapter describes a sampling of what military research psychologists do in several settings. It covers work done in military medical research laboratories, such as examining research work addressing dimensions of soldier stress, resilience, and mental health in military operations, and also work involving sleep deprivation, fatigue, and soldier performance. It characterizes particular Navy research foci on physical and emotional health, and also Air Force human factors and human performance research. The abiding goal of all military research psychology is to help preserve the health and performance of soldiers, sailors, marines, air force, and coast guard personnel during multiple aspects of their military experience.

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    Gerald P. Krueger

  2. Human-Centered ISR Division/Human Trust and Interaction Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433, USA

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Krueger, G.P., Lyons, J.B. (2017). Military Research Psychology: Advancing Performance and Practice. In: Bowles, S., Bartone, P. (eds) Handbook of Military Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66192-6_25

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