Journal article
Who dares to join a parabolic flight?
Acta Astronautica, Vol.129, pp.223-228
2016
Abstract
Parabolic flights represent an important tool in space research to investigate zero gravity on airplanes. Research on these flights often target psychological and biological processes in humans to investigate if and how we can adapt to this unique environment. This research is costly, hard to conduct and clearly heavily relies on humans participating in experiments in this (unnatural) situation. The present study investigated N =66 participants and N =66 matched control persons to study if participants in such experimental flights differ in terms of their personality traits from non-parabonauts. The main finding of this study demonstrates that parabonauts score significantly lower on harm avoidance, a trait closely linked to being anxious. As anxious humans differ from non-anxious humans in their biology, the present observations need to be taken into account when aiming at the generalizability of psychobiological research findings conducted in zero gravity on parabolic flights
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- Title
- Who dares to join a parabolic flight?
- Authors
- Christian Montag (Author) - Ulm University, GermanyTina Zander (Author) - Ulm University, GermanyStefan Schneider (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- Acta Astronautica, Vol.129, pp.223-228
- Publisher
- Pergamon
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.09.015
- ISSN
- 0094-5765
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451141502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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