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Hierarchical Pressure In The Cockpit: An ERP Study
Many accident reports have stressed the fact that first officers sometimes follow risky choices
made by captains, resulting in the mitigation of flight safety. While this tendency is well known in
the field of aviation, few studies have examined the impact of captains’ influence on first officers’
decision-making and the associated neural correlates. The present study aimed to investigate the
extent to which first officers are influenced by captains when the latter adopt a risky behavior. Student
pilots who were about to complete their training participated in this study. In the first part of
the experiment, they were presented with 50 different landing situations (i.e., pictures of Primary
Flight Display, PFD)
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