Stressful Situations in Telephone Interviews

Math Performance in Stressful Situations

Whether because individuals are made aware of negative stereotypes about how they should perform or are in a high-stakes testing situation, a stressful environment can adversely affect the success people have in solving math problems. I review work examining how unwanted failure in math occurs and individual differences in those most likely to fail. This work suggests that a high-stress situati...

Exploring nursing staffs communication in stressful and non-stressful situations.

AIM To explore the factors that characterise the work environment, focusing on communication among nurses in stressful and non-stressful situations. BACKGROUND Nursing is often described as a stressful occupation. Implementation of change may be an additional stress factor. METHODS Nurses and assistant nurses completed a questionnaire from two different perspectives, 'communication in non-s...

Chemotherapeutic resistance: surviving stressful situations.

Chemotherapeutic regimens involve the systemic administration of genotoxic compounds that induce cancer cell death via well-established DNA damage response signaling networks. Less understood is how the treatment of other cell types within the tumor microenvironment affects the therapeutic response. Here we discuss recent work that shows that tumor-adjacent cells can respond to genotoxic stress...

How Mice Cope with Stressful Social Situations

Individuals differ greatly in their psychological responses to chronic stress. As a step toward understanding the neural basis for these individual differences, Krishnan et al. (2007) reveal molecular changes in the brain's reward circuits that make some mice resistant to the effects of social defeat.

Qualitative telephone interviews: Strategies for success