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Episode171 | Expectations can impact Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Attitude, Bravado, Culture, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Human Behavior, Judgment, Perception Of Reality, Preoccupation, Risk, SAMatters Radio, Stress, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how our expectations can create stress and how stress can lead to task fixation, contribute to tunnel vision and cause a host of other situational awareness problems. Length: 26 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and […]

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Episode 167 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Expectations, Human Behavior, Judgment, Mental Models, Neuroscience, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 3 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 30 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Episode 141 | Confabulation

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confabulation, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Human Factors, Information overload, Miscommunications, Neuroscience, Overload, Perception Of Reality, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Stress / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we explore how the brain confabulates – or makes up its own reality. In the absence of facts, the brain can start to invent or create its own reality. This can be dangerous on emergency scenes. Length: 22 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are

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Episode 133 | The Devil’s Advocate

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Human Factors, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Short Term Memory, Stress, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the role of the devil’s advocate on emergency scenes and how the advocate can help when there is a flawed perception of reality. Length: 27 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making

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Episode 131 | Best practices for managing mental workload

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Human Factors, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Short Term Memory, Stress, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss five best practices for managing mental workload under stressful working conditions. Length: 26 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online

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Episode 127 | Teaching responders how to speak up

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Attitude, Automatic Action, Bravado, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Denial, Ego, Emotions, Excited, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Perception Of Reality, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Size Up, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of teaching responders how to speak up when they think something is going wrong. As we will see, it goes way beyond telling them to speak up if they see something. Length: 39 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are

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Episode 110 | Live Events Q&A

1 Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Building Construction, Cognitive Memory, Expectations, Experience, Gut Feeling, Information overload, Intuition, Long-Term Memory, Mindfulness, Overload, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I share some of the more commonly asked questions that come up during live Situational Awareness events. Length: 51 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level,

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Episode 106 | Sensory conflict can impact situational awareness

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Size Up / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we will discuss what can happen when a person is experiencing sensory conflict and how this neurological phenomenon can impact situational awareness. Length:31 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to

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