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The detrimental effects of motion sickness on the quality of individuals' performance underline the utility of screening procedures for the early identification of individuals whose performance is likely to be damaged by sickness-inducing motion. The development of such a procedure is described in this article. Biographical, personality (locus of control and repression-sensitization), and physiological (nystagmic eye movement and spiral aftereffect) data were collected from a sample of 199 seamen. In addition, each subject's performance under sickness-inducing motion was assessed by self-, peer, and officer ratings. The results show that a combination of biographical data and eye nystagmus explain 40% of performance variance. The remaining variables failed to add significantly to the proportion of explained variance. Following the first study, the biographical inventory and the test of eye nystagmus were administered to 71 new Navy recruits. The quality of the subjects' performance was assessed 8 months later. The multiple correlation between predictors and criterion was .51. Possible implications of these results for the further development of screening procedures are discussed.

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