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

摘要

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.