ABSTRACT
The emotional elements of these important team characteristics are a source of ongoing investigation and debate. A military context can appear to be the ultimate environment to explore trust issues, as the nature of a military organization and its tasks presents some of the greatest conditions for individual and group risk and vulnerability. Emotional bonds are something humans instinctually seek. Historically, much of the research in the area of attachment has been applied to parent-child relationships or couples. The process of human-human bonding can occur over social and task-related components including task cohesiveness, which refers to the degree to which group members share collective goals and labor together to meet these goals. However, the focus of this early stage of inquiry into (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) EOD-robot interactions is not to make generalizable claims that any specific tasks, situation, or environments are stressors for EOD personnel.
