Navigating the Human Terrain: Development of Cross-Cultural Perspective Taking Skills

Abstract

U.S. military missions often require that our troops work effectively with people from different cultures. To do this requires, at all levels of our force structure, an appreciation of the intricacies of societal and tribal cultures and the complexity of human-to-human interactions. This report describes the concept for a culture-general training system that can enhance multicultural perspective taking using two complimentary and integrated components. The first component teaches intercultural knowledge and theory, and the second is a cultural assimilator, which uses a scenario-based approach, short stories describing realistic and challenging interactions between two or more persons from different cultural backgrounds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA501292

Entities

People

  • Amy C. Hooper
  • Cheryl Paullin
  • Dharm P. Bhawuk
  • Douglas B. Rosenthal
  • Julisara Mathew
  • Lee A. Wadsworth

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Army Personnel
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Commerce
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Families (Human)
  • Force Structure
  • Information Processing
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.