| Cultural Influences on Intertemporal Reasoning |
30 Nov 2011 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Donald G MacGregor; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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 | Methods of formal analysis (e.g., risk assessment, decision analysis) are at the center of decision support and guidance that our Government provides to emerging nations as part of infrastructure and political development. These methods are rooted in Western concepts of intertemporal reasoning. The research identifies how cultural factors influence intertemporal reasoning, with a focus on Arab culture. Two additional cultures, Pashtun and Somali, were studied to the degree that existing ... |
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| Cultural Influences on Intertemporal Reasoning: An Annotated Bibliography |
30 Nov 2011 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Donald G MacGregor; Joseph A Tainter; Joseph R Godfrey; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| This bibliography was produced as part of an Office of Naval Research project titled Cultural Influences on Intertemporal Reasoning. The project is intended to provide a platform of knowledge based on existing research that will improve our ability to field useful and meaningful decision support in cultures where the capacity for such support is either limited or nonexistent, with a focus on three non-Western cultures: Arab, Pashtun, and Somali culture. ... |
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| Arab Cultural Influences on Intertemporal Reasoning |
30 Nov 2011 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Donald G MacGregor; Joseph R Godfrey; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| How cultures understand time is a defining cultural characteristic. This paper uses the term intertemporal reasoning to refer to the psychosocial and cultural processes engaged when people either integrate past experiences and events or project forward to the future. Available literature (in English) on Arab culture is explored to contrast how that culture reasons about time and events, with respect to Western cultures. A number of themes emerge, including the ... |
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| Observations on the Concept of Risk and Arab Culture |
30 Nov 2011 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Donald G MacGregor; Joseph R Godfrey; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| Western science has developed powerful techniques for modeling and aiding important social decisions. One such technique is risk assessment. The relationship of risk to cultural context is apparent in a number of its facets, including its dependence on values and the (potential) clash between probabilistic versus deterministic views about states of the future. This paper is an examination of the concept of risk using as a lens ideas and concepts ... |
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| Pashtun Social Structure: Cultural Perceptions and Segmentary Lineage Organization |
03 Aug 2011 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph A Tainter; Donald G MacGregor; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| The Pashtun are an ethnic group that straddles the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and are the largest group in Afghanistan. Pashtun social structure is what anthropologists term a segmentary lineage system. In such a system, there is a hierarchy of social groupings starting at the local level, then proceeding upward through various levels to an entire ethnic group. These relationships are based on kinship and shared culture. Segmentary lineage organization presents outsiders ... |
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| Intertemporal Reasoning and Cross-Cultural Decision Making |
30 Jul 2010 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Donald G MacGregor; Joseph R Godfrey; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| Elements of economic theory are examined to understand the Euro-American cultural assumptions encoded in their formulation. The research develops a framework by which to understand how Euro-American beliefs relevant to economic theory might be understood or misunderstood in other cultures, with the goal of facilitating inter-cultural dialog. The framework is constructed using an approach based on decomposing key economic concept into their component elements and relating those elements to research ... |
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