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Emotion Management Orientation and Training Exercises (EMOTE)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W91WAW-08-P-0430
Agency Tracking Number: A08A-002-0309
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: A08-T002
Solicitation Number: 2008.A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-09-02
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-03-01
Small Business Information
12 Gill Street Suite 1400
Woburn, MA 01801
United States
DUNS: 967259946
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kara Orvis
 I/O Psychologist
 (781) 496-2417
 korvis@aptima.com
Business Contact
 Margaret Clancy
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (781) 496-2415
Email: clancy@aptima.com
Research Institution
 GEORGE MASSON UNIV.
 Michael Laskofski
 
4400 University Drive MSN 4C6
Fairfax, VA 22030
United States

 (703) 993-4573
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Army leaders face a wide variety of emotionally charged situations. Success in dealing with these situations requires that Army leaders manage their emotions and those of others. Army leaders, however, receive relatively little training in this area. Neither the Army Leadership Field Manual (FM 6-22) nor the Psychology Research literature provides a great deal of guidance regarding the trainable attributes (e.g., knowledge and skills) that are needed to manage emotions in oneself and others. One purpose of the proposed Phase I work is to compile and synthesize research from various domains in order to build a theoretical model depicting the nature of emotional management and the attributes that predict it. A second purpose will be to outline a strategy for testing the model empirically. This strategy will include scenario based assessment of key variables. The model will then inform a web-based training program, the Emotion Management Orientation and Training Exercises (EMOTE) program, that will help Army leaders to develop emotion-relevant knowledges and skills. We will also outline in Phase I a strategy for evaluating the EMOTE system.

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