Physiological stress differentially impacts cognitive performance during-and memory following-simulated police encounters with persons experiencing a mental health crisis.

ABSTRACT: Police officers frequently make decisions under stress and require accurate memories of their perceptions and actions for subsequent investigations. Recognizing that police are frequently called to assist people experiencing a mental health crisis, it is of critical importance to public safety to understand the role of stress on officers' cognition when navigating such encounters. Despite this, how the timing of experiencing stress impacts officer cognition is understudied in applied police contexts and therefore remains unclear. To address this gap in the literature, we analyzed data from a study of 57 police officers who wore heart rate monitors to record physiological arousal before, during, and after two reality-based scenarios (i.e., simulated calls for service) with individuals exper

SUBMITTER: Marlatte H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959019 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature