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Psychology. Military psychology is a specialization within psychology that applies psychological science to promote the readiness of military members, organizations, and operations. [1] Military psychologists provide support to the military in many ways, including through direct clinical care, consultation to military commanders, teaching ...
Military Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of APA Division 19. The journal covers psychological research or practice in a military context, including clinical and health psychology, training and human factors, manpower and personnel, social and organizational systems, and testing and measurement.
Combat stress reaction is an acute reaction that includes a range of behaviors resulting from the stress of battle that decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency. The most common symptoms are fatigue, slower reaction times, indecision, disconnection from one's surroundings, and the inability to prioritize. Combat stress reaction is generally ...
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing and the military law enforcement establishments attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing. The book is based on S.L.A. Marshall 's theory that the majority of soldiers in war ...
Military deception ( MILDEC) is an attempt by a military unit to gain an advantage during warfare by misleading adversary decision makers into taking action or inaction that creates favorable conditions for the deceiving force. [1] [2] This is usually achieved by creating or amplifying an artificial fog of war via psychological operations ...
A military psychiatrist is a psychiatrist —whether uniformed officer or civilian consultant—specializing in the treatment of military personnel and military family members suffering from mental disorders that occur within the statistical norm for any population, as well as those disorders consequent to warfare and also stresses associated ...
On The Psychology of Military Incompetence is a work by Norman F. Dixon, [1] first published in 1976, [2] which applies insights from psychology to military history. After case studies of military and naval disasters from the preceding 120 years, mostly British, it offers in readable, not technical, style an analysis of the personality of the ...
The researchers analyzed data from more than 200 military families made up of a service member father, civilian mother and adolescent child between the ages of 11 and 18.