Effect of Group and Individual Decision Making in Intercultural Isomorphic Attribution Training

• In Event: Research Showcase of the Russian Communication Association

Abstract

Intercultural training was done though e-mail exchanges between Russian and U.S. students. Students responded to critical incidents and were asked to make isomorphic attributions three times: individually after reading the incidents, individually after reading the responses of the "other" culture, and after group interaction.
Group interaction was discussion with individual decisions, majority-rule, and consensus. Effects on ethnocentrism are discussed

Authors

• Jackie Schmidt, John Carroll University

• Zhanna Zaritskaya, Novosibirsk State University