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Stress-induced cortisol secretion impairs detection performance in x-ray baggage screening for hidden weapons by screening novices

Thomas, Livia and Schwaninger, Adrian and Heimgartner, Nadja and Hedinger, Patrik and Hofer, Franziska and Ehlert, Ulrike and Wirtz, Petra H.. (2014) Stress-induced cortisol secretion impairs detection performance in x-ray baggage screening for hidden weapons by screening novices. Psychophysiology, 51 (9). pp. 912-920.

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Abstract

Aviation security strongly depends on screeners' performance in the detection of threat objects in x-ray images of passenger bags. We examined for the first time the effects of stress and stress-induced cortisol increases on detection performance of hidden weapons in an x-ray baggage screening task. We randomly assigned 48 participants either to a stress or a nonstress group. The stress group was exposed to a standardized psychosocial stress test (TSST). Before and after stress/nonstress, participants had to detect threat objects in a computer-based object recognition test (X-ray ORT). We repeatedly measured salivary cortisol and X-ray ORT performance before and after stress/nonstress. Cortisol increases in reaction to psychosocial stress induction but not to nonstress independently impaired x-ray detection performance. Our results suggest that stress-induced cortisol increases at peak reactivity impair x-ray screening performance.
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Health & Intervention > Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (Gaab)
UniBasel Contributors:Heimgartner, Nadja
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Wiley
ISSN:0048-5772
e-ISSN:1469-8986
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:04 Dec 2017 09:07

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