Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making : Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making (CCDM), July 27-31,2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding human cognition and its interplay with various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures. It addresses researchers, scholars, and industry practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including sociology, linguistics, business, military science, psychology, human factors, neuroscience, and education. The book covers a wealth of topics, such as the analyses of historical events and intercultural competence, commercial applications of social-cultural science, the study of decision-making similarities (and differences) across cultures, Human, Social, Cultural Behavioral (HSCB) modeling and simulation technology, as well as social networks and studies on group communication. It also reports on real-world case studies relevant to cross-cultural decision making. The book aims at combining neurocognitive studies with studies from other relevant disciplines to develop a more holistic understanding of the decisions that people, groups, and societies make to improve the ability to forecast and plan for the future. The book is based on the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making (CCDM), held on July 27-31, 2016, in Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Expeditionary Modeling for Population-Centric Operations in Megacities: Some Initial Experiments....Pages 3-15 Time-Series Analysis of Blog and Metaphor Dynamics for Event Detection....Pages 17-27 Using Stories to Deepen Shared Human-Computer Understanding of PMESII Systems....Pages 29-41 Modeling Causal Relationships in Sociocultural Systems Using Ensemble Methods....Pages 43-56 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Difference Analysis of Impression on Japan from Chinese Students with Different Education Stages....Pages 59-69 Dynamics of National Culture and Employee Characteristics on Organizational Commitment in Retail Banks in Ghana....Pages 71-83 Cross-Cultural Competence and Functional Diversity in Business Negotiations: A Developing Country’s Perspective....Pages 85-98 Investigation of Cultural Bias Using Physiological Metrics....Pages 99-108 Effects of Price of Zero on Decision Making: An Attempt to Generalize Human’s Irrational Behavior to Price of Zero....Pages 109-116 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Culture in the Cockpit: Implications for CRM Training....Pages 119-131 Irrational Behavior in Adaptation: Difference of Adaptation Process to Comfort and Discomfort Stimulus When Presented All Together or Intermittently....Pages 133-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Evaluating Automatic Learning of Structure for Event Extraction....Pages 145-158 Scenario-Based Practical Exercises to Train and Assess General Cross-Cultural Competence for Special Operations Forces....Pages 159-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Toward Culturally-Aware, Next Generation Learning Ecosystems....Pages 173-181 Investigating Cross-Cultural Differences in Trust Levels of Automotive Automation....Pages 183-194 Evaluating Instructor Configurability for Adaptive Training....Pages 195-206 Backstory Elaboration: A Method for Creating Realistic and Individually Varied Cultural Avatars....Pages 207-217 The Preference of Using Social Media by Different Attachment Styles for Managing Romantic Relation....Pages 219-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Considering Culture in Contemporary Military Interventions: Simulating the Effects of Actions of Influence on a Civilian Population....Pages 225-236 Development of a Competency Model for Civil-Military Teaming....Pages 237-249 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 A Planning Tool for Interaction with Influential Actors Based on Paraconsistent Logic....Pages 251-264 The Effects of Demographic and Sociocultural Variables on 3rd Year ROTC Cadets Officer/Evaluator Rating Scores....Pages 265-276 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 The Conundrum of Verification and Validation of Social Science-Based Models Redux....Pages 279-292 Socio-cultural Modeling and Dynamic Decision Making....Pages 293-306 Examining the, Ideological, Sociopolitical, and Contextual Factors Underlying the Appeal of Extremism....Pages 307-319 Using Computational Modeling to Examine Shifts Towards Extremist Behaviors in European Diaspora Communities....Pages 321-332 A Statistical Approach to the Subnational Geolocation of Event Data....Pages 333-343 Tweet Sentiment Analysis with Pronoun Choice Reveals Online Community Dynamics in Response to Crisis Events....Pages 345-356