I saw an interesting BBC Horizon documentary called "How To Make Better Decisions" and near the end of the show they look at what the military calls 'exceptional situational awareness' as it relates to certain fighter pilots ability to predict where the adversary will be in the near future. They claim since WW1 just %4 of pilots account for %40 of kills but that stat could be highly skewed. Anyway...
The experiment carried out in the show measures skin conductance in relation to the emotional response of a subject exposed to pictures. The pictures are categorized as either calm or emotional according to 'industry standard test pictures' or some such thing. They show several of the pictures for example, a guy staring out a window would be 'calm' and a father hugging his child as 'emotional'
So skin conductance remains low when shown calm pictures and rises when shown emotional pictures.
It turns out the subjects skin conductance rises several seconds before being exposed to the emotional pictures that are being randomly displayed by computer interspersed with calm pictures.
The subject shown is a rather unhealthy looking female, not an exceptional fighter pilot so I suppose the experiment indicates we all have the ability?
Anywhoo, I thought I would throw it out there, apparently you can download the show as a podcast at
_bbc.co.uk/horizon if your intrested in watching it.
The experiment carried out in the show measures skin conductance in relation to the emotional response of a subject exposed to pictures. The pictures are categorized as either calm or emotional according to 'industry standard test pictures' or some such thing. They show several of the pictures for example, a guy staring out a window would be 'calm' and a father hugging his child as 'emotional'
So skin conductance remains low when shown calm pictures and rises when shown emotional pictures.
It turns out the subjects skin conductance rises several seconds before being exposed to the emotional pictures that are being randomly displayed by computer interspersed with calm pictures.
The subject shown is a rather unhealthy looking female, not an exceptional fighter pilot so I suppose the experiment indicates we all have the ability?
Anywhoo, I thought I would throw it out there, apparently you can download the show as a podcast at
_bbc.co.uk/horizon if your intrested in watching it.