ABSTRACT

As discussed in the Introduction, the word 'stress' as it used in everyday language is rich, polysemous, and subtly dependent upon context. However, the same qualities that make it a powerful and useful term for common conversation make it a problem for researchers, who promptly narrow and redefine the term for the purpose of scientific inquiry. This in turn makes the relevance of many research results to the 'real world', not least the operational world of aviation, more difficult to gauge.