The purpose of this edition of Moving Soldiers is to present a categorized overviewof research related to risk-taking attitudes and behaviors in military contexts. Thebibliography is grounded in a larger project – “Learning under Risk” – which hasbeen launched to increase the knowledge about risk and its meaning for militaryperformance. In order to gain an overview of previous research in this field, it isnecessary to uncover the current knowledge status. Thus, what is required is acollection of references to journal articles, books and chapters in books, and Ph.Ddissertations that deal with soldiers’ experiences and attitudes towards risk andrisk-taking contexts. The gathering of references has been carried out by searchingacademic databases by keywords in different combinations (270 search termsaltogether), followed by a review of reference lists and searches in Google Scholar. Theprocedure uncovered 226 references found to be relevant for this bibliography,and which have been categorized into the following 12 categories: Combat motivation;Combat zone experience; Fear and courage; On killing; Leadership; Life threat;Performance under pressure; Post traumatic growth; Risk-taking; Sensation seeking;Warrior ethos; Well-being. The findings are discussed with a view to relevance forthe project “Learning under Risk”.
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