LIVE SIMULATION OF AFFECT-LADEN CULTURAL COGNITIONS
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 11, Heft 3, S. 312-324
ISSN: 0022-0027, 0731-4086
A technique for simulating culturally derived cognitions in a live role-playing situation is presented. Stable auxiliaries were trained to play opposite an Amer participant, & to reflect a synthetic-contrived but believable contrast-US culture. The content of this culture was defined at the cognitive level & contained a number of assumptions, values & cultural forms. These configurations were derived from an analysis of aspects of US culture judged salient to overseas performance, but systematically reflected to yield a mirror image of them. The technique permits one to deal in vivo with effectively loaded cognitions of an individual's personality, while maintaining a promising degree of exp'ay control over the interaction. Applying a quasi-exp'al device like simulation to the rich but for the most part exp'ly untouched field of cross-cultural COMM seems esp appropriate because of the technique's specific discovery potential & heuristic value. AA.