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RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services.
Cognitive Blindness: What you don’t see can kill you.
Call it size-up, assessment or situational awareness; the ability to perceive and interpret information is critical for managing any emergency incident. But when does focused concentration turn into tunnel vision? Sometimes the training and experience that we rely on to do our job can make us perceive and even recall events very differently than they actually are, sometimes with disastrous results. How can we develop the ability to better direct attention to critical cues without losing sight of additional information vital to the emergency.
Sometimes the blindfold stays on, even though you believe that you're looking!
How you can use these resources: RescueDigest curates great research and resources during the development of our articles and educational programs. Since our mission is to “Help You Help Others” we present the best of these resources for you to explore, share and use in your own agency.
Cognitive Blindness Experiments: Not Seeing is Believing.
- The Invisible Gorilla
- J. Kevin O’Regan’s Research & Demonstrations
- The Situationalist The Grand Illusion
- Mind Lab: Set aside some time for this. It’s worth it.
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Decision Making: How we know what to do.
Situational Awareness: Putting it all together.
RescueDigest’s Own Programs:
Rom Duckworth’s Illusion of Attention in Emergency Services
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