A Cultural Self-Awareness Approach to Improving Intercultural Communication Skills

Abstract

Communication between persons of differing cultural backgrounds can be hindered by culturally-conditioned assumptions that they make about each other's cognitions. An exercise was designed to reduce this effect through increased cultural self-awareness. It involves participants in analyzing video recordings of staged intercultural dialogues that contain subtle manifestations of cultural influences present in American society. The participants learn how to recognize such manifestations. Some conclusions are made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0760488

Entities

People

  • Alfred J. Kraemer

Organizations

  • Human Resources Research Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Education
  • Human Resources
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Judgment
  • Learning
  • Materials
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • Video Recording

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.