Narrative structure as a cultural variable in modeling and training decision making

All cultures use narrative structures as a model for both making decisions and interpreting them. Current research suggests that narrative structures interact with individual motivations and personality factors to explain a large part of individual variability in decision making, with recourse to classical decision science constructs. Computational models and simulations based on narrative structure representations can be used train culturally adaptive decision making. Case studies from medicine and military negotiations illLlstrate the framework and its limitations.