Understanding Police Performance Under Stress: Insights From the Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat

We examine when and how police officers may avoid costly errors under stress by leveraging theoretical and empirical work on the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat. According to the BPS model, in motivated performance contexts (e.g., test taking, athletics), the evaluation of situat...

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Main Authors: Donovan C. Kelley, Erika Siegel, Jolie B. Wormwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01800/full