Psychological analysis

For each of the stages of the model, Petersen (1985) provided a series of flow diagrams to assist analysts in using the model for incident analysis. These are given in Appendix 2B. The use of the model and the flow charts for detailed psychological analysis of incidents is illustrated by a case study in Appendix 2C. 

Detailed methods for incident analysis are described in Chapter 6. The methods described in this chapter provide the basis for a psychological analysis of incident causes. 

In general, the value of a psychological perspective in incident analysis is that it directs the analyst to search for causes that would not otherwise have been considered. This means that the development of preventative strategies will be better informed. In addition, an evaluation of causes from a psychological perspective can be useful when the "root cause" appears to be an otherwise incomprehensible failure on the part of an individual. A psychological analysis can break the "causal log jam" by providing an explanation. 

Whether this concept can stand up under a rigorous psychological analysis has never been discussed, at least in the literature of theoretical physics. It may even be inconsistent with quantum mechanics in that the creation of a finite mass is equivalent to the creation of energy that, by the uncertainty principle, requires a finite time A2 A h. Thus the creation of an electron would require a time of the order 10 20 second. Higher order operations would take more time, and the divergences found in quantum field theory due to infinite series of creation operations would spread over an infinite time, and so be quite unphysical. 

We now turn from the logical to the psychological analysis, which is complicated by the fact that causal and diagnostic contingencies are usually confounded in the real world. Suppose undergraduates know that students who attend a review session for the final examination get better grades than students who do not attend. Does the correlation between attendance and grade mean that the review session really helps Or does it mean that reviews are attended primarily by conscientious students who would do well, session or no Insofar as... 

Bernstein, S. Kaufman, M. R. 1960, A psychological analysis of apparent depression following Rauwolfia therapy, Journal of Mount Sinai Hospital, vol. 27, pp. 525-530. 

The psychological analysis of the emotions is little more than a hundred years old. Darwin s Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals (1872) and William James s "What Is an Emotion" (1884) are the first studies of the emotions using scientific methodology. Over the past century, empirical and theoretical studies of the emotions have accumulated at an accelerating rate. In Chapter IV, L draw on these contributions to outline my understanding of what the emotions are and what they do. 

To validate the disease status of mental illness, psychiatrists resort to three overlapping claims, interpretations, or, perhaps most precisely, strategies. They are. (1) Mental illnesses are brain diseases. (2) Mental illnesses are real diseases, manifested by abnormal behaviors. (3) The term disease identifies the physician s perception of the patient s ailment, whereas the term illness identifies the patient s perception of it, in effect abolishing the possibility of distinguishing between sign and symptom, objective evidence of illness and subjective complaint. I shall briefly review the first and second views in this chapter, and consider the third, which pertains more to a philosophical than to a psychological analysis of the concept of disease, in the next chapter. 

Lyng, S. (1990) Edgework a social psychological analysis of voluntary risk taking. American Journal of Sociology, 95 (4), 851-886. 

Janis, I. J., and Marm, L. (1977), Decision Making A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment, Eree Press, New York. 

Table 4. Downhole environment requirements and workers can save psychological analysis the management decision...

Kerr, N.L. and Tindale, R.S. (2011) Group-based forecasting A social psychological analysis , International Journal of Forecasting, iq-. 14-40 (hereinafter, Kerr and Tindale, Group-based forecasting ). 

Note that Step 3 in the following says This procedure involving rule-of-thumb psychology is featured in the text and that Step 5 proposes the Selection of remedies based on psychological analysis. ... 

Step 3. Selection of remedies based on knowledge of personal subcauses or reasons for the commission of unsafe acts and which considers underlying causes only when the problem does not yield to direct attack. (This procedure involving rule-of-thumb psychology is featured in the text.) Step 4. Selection of remedies based on analysis of underlying causes. Step 5. Selection of remedies based on psychological analysis. (Citation 10)... 

While these studies suggest that behavioural or intellectual function could be impaired by exposure to lead, doubt is thrown on such an interpretation by poor or inadequate controls, or poorly defined behavioural parameters. More work both on experimental animals and with more rigorous psychological analysis (e.g. as outlined by Barocas and Weiss, 1974) clearly needs to be done. 

Physicians for Human Rights, Doing Harm Health Professionak Central Role in the CIA Torture Program. Medical and Psychological Analysis of the 2014 U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report s Executive Summary , December 2014. 

Wilczynska A, De Meester F, Singh Ram B et al. (2010) Heart rate and blood pressure in the context of nutritional and psychological analysis a case study. Eur J Med Res 15, Suppl 2 217-213... 

Janis, F.L. Mann, L., Decision making - a psychological analysis of conflict, choice, and commitment. The Free Press, New York, 1977. 

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