Highlights•Perceptual-motor behavior is a process (ie, perception, selection, action).•Anxiety
induces an attentional, interpretational and behavioral bias to threat.•Reduced attentional …

Purpose Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, police officers are confronted with various novel
challenges, which might place additional strain on officers. This mixed-method study …

We conducted a narrative review of existing literature to identify the knowledge, skills, and
abilities (KSAs) necessary for officers who police in democratic societies to successfully …

Under conditions of physiological stress, officers are sometimes required to make split-
second life-or-death decisions, where deficits in performance can have tragic outcomes …

Policing is a highly stressful and dangerous profession that involves a complex set of
environmental, psychosocial, and health risks. The current study examined autonomic stress …

The ego-depletion effect refers to a temporary failure of self-control exertion after first
performing an effortful task. This phenomenon has experienced a replication crisis in the …

Police officers are often required to perform under high-stress circumstances, in which
optimal task performance is crucial for their and the bystanders' physical integrity. However …

To prepare for critical incidents on duty, police officers need to acquire the skills and tactics
in realistic environments so that they transfer to high-stress circumstances. To bridge the gap …

On duty, police officers are exposed to a variety of acute, threatening stress situations and
organizational demands. In line with the allostatic load model, the resulting acute and …

Law enforcement is inherently stressful, and police officers are particularly vulnerable to
mental and physical disorders. As such, researchers are currently assessing intervention …