The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology

Edited by Janice H. Laurence and Michael D. Matthews

Oxford Library of Psychology

Covers exciting new developments in the field
Represents the vital and long-ignored role of psychology in wars and military engagements in the 21st century
Authors are international experts in military psychology with actual military experience and expertise
Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY series

The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology

Edited by Janice H. Laurence and Michael D. Matthews

Description

The critical link between psychology and the military is imprtant to recruiting, training, socializing, assigning, employing, deploying, motivating, rewarding, maintaining, managing, integrating, retaining, transitioning, supporting, counseling, and healing military members. These areas are hardly distinct, and the chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology have contents that cross these boundaries.

Collectively, the topics covered in this volume describe the myriad ways in which modern psychology influences warfare and vice versa. The extensive topics included come from within the areas of clinical, industrial/organizational, experimental, engineering, and social psychology. The contributors are top international experts in military psychology — some uniformed soldiers, others academics and clinicians, and others civilian employees of the military or other government agencies. They address important areas in which the science and practice of psychology supports military personnel in their varied and complex missions.

Among the topics addressed here are suitability for service, leadership, decision making, training, terrorism, socio-cultural competencies, diversity and cohesion, morale, quality-of-life, ethical challenges, and mental health and fitness. The focus is the ways in which psychology promotes the decisive human dimension of military effectiveness. Collectively, the 25 topical chapters of this handbook provide an overview of modern military psychology and its tremendous influence on the military and society as a whole.

The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology

Edited by Janice H. Laurence and Michael D. Matthews

Oxford Library of Psychology

Contents
1. The Handbook of Military Psychology: An Introduction
Janice H. Laurence and Michael D. Matthews
2. Comprehensive Soldier Fitness: Why? and Why Now?
Rhonda L. Cornum and Paul B. Lester
3. Combat-Related Stress Reactions and Suicide among US Veterans of War-Time Service
Amy W. Wagner and Matthew Jakupcak
4. Physical Injuries; Psychological Treatment
Rebecca I. Porter
5. Operational Psychology: Foundation, Applications, and Issues
Thomas J. Williams, James J. Picano, Robert R. Roland, and Paul Bartone
6. Ethics, Human Rights, and Interrogations: The Position of the American Psychological Association
Stephen Behnke and Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter
7. In Search for Psychological Explanations of Terrorism
Ragnhild B. Lygre and Jarle Eid
8. Crime on the Battlefield: Military Fate or Individual Choice?
Neal A. Puckett and Marcelyn Atwood
9. What Do Commanders Really Want To Know? US Army Human Terrain System Lessons Learned From Iraq and Afghanistan
Montgomery McFate, Britt Damon, Robert Holliday
10. An International Perspective on Military Psychology
Jarle Eid, Francois Lescreve, and Gerry Larsson
11. Military Selection and Classification in the United States
Michael G. Rumsey
12. Assessing Psychological Suitability for High-Risk Military Jobs
James J. Picano and Robert R. Roland
13. Leadership in Dangerous Contexts: A Team-Focused, Replenishment-of-Resources Approach
Donald J. Campbell
14. Swift Trust in ad hoc Military Organizations: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Paul B. Lester and Gretchen R. Vogelgesang
15. Leader Development in Natural Context
Gerry Larsson
16. Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Factors in Soldier Performance
Michael D. Matthews
17. Characteristics of Sense-making in Combat
Uzi Ben-Shalom, Yehiel Klar, and Yizhaq Benbenisty
18. Military Engineering Psychology: Setting the Pace for Exceptional Performance
Gerald P. Krueger
19. Psychology's Contribution to Military Training
Stephen L. Goldberg
20. The Role of Sleep in the Military: Implications for Training and Operational Effectiveness
Nita Lewis Miller, Panagiotis Matsangas and Aileen Kenney
21. Teams in the Military: A Review and Emerging Challenges
Marissa L. Shuffler, Davin Pavlas, and Eduardo Salas
22. Boredom: Groundhog Day as Metaphor for Iraq
Morten G. Ender
23. Minorities in the Military
Karin De Angelis and David R. Segal
24. Gay Service Personnel in the US Military: History, Progress and A Way Forward
Armando X. Estrada
25. Military Families in an Era of Persistent Conflict
Bradford Booth and Suzanne Lederer
26. What They Deserve: Quality of Life in the U.S. Military
Diane M. Ryan and Lolita M. Burrell
27. Conclusion and Emerging Issues
Michael D. Matthews and Janice H. Laurence

The Oxford Handbook of Military Psychology

Edited by Janice H. Laurence and Michael D. Matthews

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Edited by Janice H. Laurence, Associate Professor, College of Education, Temple University, and Edited by Michael D. Matthews, Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, West Point

Janice H. Laurence, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Adult & Organizational Development, Temple University, and editor of the journal Military Psychology. Dr. Laurence recently retired as Director, Research and Analysis, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel & Readiness, Pentagon. Michael D. Matthews, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, U.S. Military Academy.

Contributors:

Marcelyn Atwood, The Law Firm of Puckett & Faraj, PC, C-State Solutions, LLC, Alexandria, VA
Paul Bartone, Life Sciences Directorate, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
Stephen Behnke, American Psychological Association Ethics Office, Washington, D.C.
Yizhaq Benbenisty, Militry Psychology Center, IDF
Uzi Ben-Shalom. Bar-Ilan University & Tactical Command College, IDF
Bradford Booth, ICF International, Fairfaw, Virginia
Lolita M. Burrell, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Donald J. Campbell, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Rhonda L. Cornum, Director, Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, HQDA, G3/5/7
Britt Damon, US Army Human Terrain System
Karin De Angelis, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Jarle Eid, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway
Morten G. Ender, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Armando X. Estrada, Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
Stephen L. Goldberg, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Orlando, Florida
Robert Holliday, King's College London
Matthew Jakupcak, Deployment Health Clinic, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
Aileen Kenney, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Yehiel Klar, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University
Gerald P. Krueger, Krueger Ergonomics Consultants, Alexandria, Virginia
Gerry Larsson, Swedish National Defense College, Karlstad, Sweden
Janice H. Laurence, Associate Professor, Adult & Organizational Development, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Suzanne Lederer, ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia
Francois Lescreve, Defense Staff, Belgium
Paul B. Lester, Director of Research & Development, Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, U.S. Army, Arlington, Virginia
Ragnhild B. Lygre, Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway
Panagiotis Matsangas, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Michael D. Matthews, Professor of Engineering Psychology, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
Montgomery McFate, US Army Human Terrain System
Nita Lewis Miller, Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter, American Psychological Association Ethics Committee
Davin Pavlas, Department of Psychology, and Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida
Jim Picano, United States Reserve
Rebecca I. Porter, Colonel, Office of the Surgeon General U.S. Army, Falls Church, Virginia
Neal A. Puckett, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired Puckett & Faraj, PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia C-State Solutions, LLC, Alexandria, VA
Robert R. Roland, United States, Retired
Michael G. Rumsey, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Diane M. Ryan, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
David R. Segal, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Marissa L. Shuffler, Department of Psychology, and Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida
Gretchen R. Vogelgesang, Federal Management Partners, Alexandria, VA
Amy W. Wagner, Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, OR
Thomas J. Williams, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania