Detecting expertise in decision making under pressure: a virtual reality assessment environment and empirical evaluation.

ABSTRACT: Professions such as military, aviation, submarine operation, and emergency response require individuals to navigate complex environments characterized by limited information, stringent time constraints, and significant pressures. Effective decision making under pressure is crucial in safety-critical professions, yet measuring this expertise remains challenging. Inspired by the military context, this article introduces the virtual reality decision-making expertise (VR-DMX) environment, designed to evaluate decision-making expertise under time constraints within a virtual reality scenario. VR-DMX simulates an amusement arcade where users must decide how to allocate time across various games to maximize ticket earnings. Through two validation studies (N = 60 and N = 76), we examined two metri

SUBMITTER: Thompson MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12783459 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature