House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently advised the White House to “Take a deep breath” before making decisions relating to the escalation of tensions with Iran.

Chess Grandmasters and Navy SEALs follow Nancy Pelosi’s advice to make better decisions under pressure. So could taking a deep breath also help with business decision making?

A recent collaborative study by researchers from Belgium, France, and the Seychelles, tried to answer this question with an experiment based on an “in-basket test,” a testing protocol used by organizations to assess how well potential employees make decisions under the kind of pressure encountered in a typical managerial environment.