Cultural Variation in Situation Assessment: Influence of Source Credibility and Rank Status

Abstract

This report presents the findings of an experiment that investigated the effects of cultural background, message information content, rank status, and source credibility on situation assessment. Although information content, rank status, and source credibility have received much attention by researchers in command and control decision-making, cultural variations in these factors have seldom been studied. Findings in this report contribute to understanding the effects of cultural variables on situation assessment. These findings ca be used to enhance the development of a database that relates cultural characteristics to decision-making preferences and tendencies. Future research should build on theses findings, by investigating in detail the relationship between cultural attributes, organization factors, decision biases, and situation assessment variables.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA381769

Entities

People

  • J. S. Burns
  • J. W. Gwynne
  • N. J. Heacox
  • R. T. Kelly
  • S. I. Sander

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • International Organizations
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transportation
  • War Games
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control