Assembling a synthetic emotion mediator for quick decision making during acute stress

Motivation -- Previous research suggests that emotions and stressors influence the decision making processes in different ways. Decisions made by emergency workers in a stressful situation could be negatively influenced by emotions and stressors. This project aims to train police officers and military personnel to make high quality decisions in a stressful situation, by training them in a virtual reality environment and providing feedback on their valence and arousal levels. Research approach -- Literature research has been used to establish a model that can predict an individual's reaction to a stressful situation, and the way this will influence their decisions. This model will be implemented in a Synthetic Emotion Mediator. This mediator will be used in a virtual reality training, in which participants train on making good decisions, even when strong emotions inflicted by an acute stress response take hold of them.

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