Advances in Design for Cross-Cultural Activities Part II

by Denise M. Nicholson (Editor), Dylan D. Schmorrow (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores decision-making styles, including cooperative, collaborative, avoidant, competitive, and dominate that are commonly modified by the culture. Culture is not a stagnant phenomenon, and many variables need to be considered to accurately evaluation cultural differences in decision-making styles. Among many cultural factors, the individual ("I" culture) – collectivism ("we" culture) dimension is one of the most important influential factor to be considered when studying culture difference, including decision-making styles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466556867
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/11/2012
Series:	Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics Series , #13
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Nicholson, Denise M.; Schmorrow, Dylan D.

Table of Contents

Section I: Multifarious Modeling Discussions 1 Stable versus flexible dynamic decision making across cultures: A growth mixture modeling approach 2 Creating the foundations for modeling irregular warfare 3 Granular ABM simulations for operational use: Forecasting and what-if experiments with models of Kandahar and Kunduz 4 Culture that works 5 Discovering entity characteristics and relationships through topic Modelling 6 A non-therapeutic, micro-worlds based, application of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to fostering cross-cultural Competence 7 What lies beneath: Forecast transparency to foster understanding and trust in forecast models 8 Combining social and environmental models Section II: Verification, Validation, and Assessment 9 Fundamentals in empirical validation of and analysis with social science models 10 Al-Qa'ida through a discursive lens 11 Countering the adversary 12 Interfacing and validating models of the US Army TRAC tactical war game 13 Multi-modeling and socio-cultural complexity: Reuse and validation 14 A V&V approach for complex models: A use case example 15 Multi-modeling and meta-modeling of human organizations 16 Verification as a form of validation: Deepening theory to broaden application of DOD protocols to the social sciences 17 Establishing bounds of responsible operational use of social science models via innovations in verification and validation 18 Contextual validation: Concept and application Section III: Language, Trust, and Culture 19 Improvements in the Jabari event coder 20 Effect of culture on search strategies 21 Using language to influencing another's decision 22 Assessing attitudes in unstructured text 23 Analysis of discourse for indications and warnings 24 Socio-linguistic factors and gender mapping across real and virtual world cultures 25 The language of distance perception: Cultural and linguistic implications in distance perception 26 Building trust in a counterinsurgency context Section IV: Social Media and Culture 27 Social networks, social media, social change 28 Identifying differences in cultural behavior in online groups 29 Inferring demographic attributes and extracting political discourse from Nigerian social media 30 The use of microworlds in the study of dynamic decision making across cultures 31 Speech and cultural recognition in a virtual experiential environment 32 Network discovery: Measuring cause and effect behind event and social networks 33 Cultural analytics through image features extraction and exploration Section V: Social Science and Culture 34 How the Obama Administration misconstrued the Arab Spring and repeated the errors of the Bush Doctrine 35 The crisis of the West, the challenge of technology, and the reaffirmation of political philosophy 36 American legal education and the Supreme Court in the 1920s 37 The philosophical foundations of the crisis of Western Civilization 38 A toolbox for countering extremist religious truths 39 From particles to people: Social, cultural and behavioral dynamics in insurgency, terrorism and beyond 40 What is cross-culture? 41 Socio-cultural modeling through decision-theoretic agents with theory of mind 42 Predictive societal indicators of radicalism – Forecasting political Violence 43 Population sentiment modeling in support of ISAF Joint Command 44 Semantic integration of socio-cultural knowledge for complex operations