Over View of the Decision Making Under Stress Paper
Overview of the Decision Making Under Stress
By Yamin Mirdad
EMGT 313 Managerial Decision Making Spring 2012 Missouri University Of Science and Technology
1. Introduction:
Many papers and researches were written on Decision making and the influences that affect on this heavier, it can be called one of the main effected causative, which is stress. The stress is one of the factors that decision makers must deal with in most of life or death situations, for better understanding of individual judgment and decision making activities whilst under stress would yield a better understanding of how people reach the choices they make in emergencies. The effect of stressful conditions on human judgment is of importance to emergency managers; firefighting system and all system can be work under stress. This paper is going to give some hints for the stress effect on emergency managers, and Bushfire lesson learn from their experience of decision making under stress, exactly for issues that related to life or death od people. The decisions that are made in the first minutes, hours, and days are critical to successful mitigation; damage control; prevention of death, injury and structural loss; control of financial costs; and, ultimately, the overall resolution of the disaster. Stress also has an influence on moral dilemmas medical staff, which they have to face every day. The brain regions involved in moral decision-making is areas that are also sensitive to stress. Stress in both in real life and experimentally made by either a social-cognitive stress task or, by application of stress hormones hat can influence cognitive and emotive functioning. Acute stress leads to activation of the sympathetic nervous system and a release of cortisol through the activation of the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis. Recent
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neuroimaging studies have shown that stress can also lead to changes in the prefrontal cortex
By Yamin Mirdad
EMGT 313 Managerial Decision Making Spring 2012 Missouri University Of Science and Technology
1. Introduction:
Many papers and researches were written on Decision making and the influences that affect on this heavier, it can be called one of the main effected causative, which is stress. The stress is one of the factors that decision makers must deal with in most of life or death situations, for better understanding of individual judgment and decision making activities whilst under stress would yield a better understanding of how people reach the choices they make in emergencies. The effect of stressful conditions on human judgment is of importance to emergency managers; firefighting system and all system can be work under stress. This paper is going to give some hints for the stress effect on emergency managers, and Bushfire lesson learn from their experience of decision making under stress, exactly for issues that related to life or death od people. The decisions that are made in the first minutes, hours, and days are critical to successful mitigation; damage control; prevention of death, injury and structural loss; control of financial costs; and, ultimately, the overall resolution of the disaster. Stress also has an influence on moral dilemmas medical staff, which they have to face every day. The brain regions involved in moral decision-making is areas that are also sensitive to stress. Stress in both in real life and experimentally made by either a social-cognitive stress task or, by application of stress hormones hat can influence cognitive and emotive functioning. Acute stress leads to activation of the sympathetic nervous system and a release of cortisol through the activation of the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis. Recent
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neuroimaging studies have shown that stress can also lead to changes in the prefrontal cortex