Examining impacts of high-level stress in a complex environment

The decisions made by corporate-level executives and by senior military personnel can have major implications for future events and outcomes. Decisions which might be affected by workload and time pressure should be optimized wherever and whenever possible.

Dr. Streufert and collaborators designed a cognitive simulation study as a pioneering foray into the nature of stress and personality types at the “executive" level. This research is considered seminal as research at that time typically did not consider the complex problems and environments with which high-level decision-makers are frequently faced.