Serious gaming for adaptive decision making of military personnel

Mun, Y.; Oprins, E.A.P.B.; Bosch, Karel Van den; Hulst, Anja van der; Schraagen, Jan Maarten

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“…To date, cognitive complexityovercoming 'us-versus-them' and 'black and white' thinking (Liht & Savage, 2013;Savage, Khan, & Liht, 2014)as well as critical thinking (Aly, Taylor, & Karnovsky, 2014;Davies, 2016) are trained in educational or community settings. If evidence of the role of cognitive flexibility is strengthened, programmes could be extended to include relevant activities, such as serious gaming (Boendermaker, Peeters, Prins, & Wiers, 2017), that improve adaptive decision-making and thinking (Mun, Oprins, Van Den Bosch, Van Der Hulst, & Schraagen, 2017).…”

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Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod, Rentfrow, & Robbins, 2019

Schumann

Salman

Clemmow

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. Research assessing violent extremist risk factors thus far largely ignored the role of cognitive processes. Zmigrod and colleagues (2019a) addressed this gap and presented first systematic evidence that lower levels of cognitive flexibility predict a higher willingness to fight and, ultimately, die for a national ingroup. This finding has important theoretical and practical implications. In order to strengthen the potential contribution of Zmigrod et al.'s work, we will conduct a registered direct replication of Study 1. Extending the original study, we further examine whether the documented relationship still holds when a self-report measure for cognitive flexibility is introduced and when analyses control for identity fusion. We also investigate if cognitive inflexibility solely predicts violent or also normative pro-group behaviour intentions.Methods. Following Zmigrod, Rentfrow, and Robbins (2019a), we will administer a cross-sectional survey study. Participants (N = 1,378) report their willingness to fight, die, and sacrifice themselves for the ingroup and complete the Remote Associates as well as Wisconsin Card Sorting tests. Afterwards, additional measures of self-reported cognitive flexibility, identity fusion, and normative pro-group behaviour are assessed.Results. To be completed. Conclusions. To be completed.A burgeoning body of research highlights numerous violent extremist risk factors that point, amongst others, to the role of exposure to radicalizing actors, critical life events, and grievances (e.g.

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Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod, Rentfrow, & Robbins, 2019

Schumann

Salman

Clemmow

et al. 2020

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…One rigorous, controlled experiment follows many best practices and shows the effectiveness of multiple games when compared to more traditional instruction, especially for learning hands-on skills [14]. Another study tested a serious game to train adaptive decision in military personnel [15] The U.S. Military utilizes serious games for a variety of purposes [16]. Examples include America's Army, 2 Airman Challenge, 3 World War II Spotter Cards, 4 and playing cards showing modern weapon systems from other countries.…”

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Battlespace Next(TM)

Flack¹,

Lin²,

Peterson³

et al. 2020

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Changes in the geopolitical landscape and increasing technological complexity have prompted the U.S. Military to coin the terms Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) and Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) as over-arching strategy to frame the complexity of warfare across both traditional and emerging warfighting domains. Teaching new concepts associated with these terms requires both innovation as well as distinct education and training tools in order to realize the cultural change advocated by senior military leaders. Battlespace NextTM (BSN) is a serious game designed to teach concepts integral to MDO and initiate discussion on military strategy while conserving time, money, and manpower. BSN, a Collectable Card Game (CCG), is engineered to provide an engaging learning tool that educates on capabilities in a multi-domain conflict. This paper proposes an extensible game framework for modeling and reasoning about MDO concepts and presents our empirical feedback from over 120 military play testers evaluating a moderate to difficult version of the game. Results reveal the game teaches MDO concepts and delivers an engaging, hands-on learning experience. Specifically, we provide evidence it improved military readiness in seven areas of MDO in at least 62% of participants and 76% of respondents reported they enjoyed playing the game.

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“…Cognitive flexibility is found by many researchers as one of the most important characteristics for developing effective adaptability. Cognitive flexibility is strongly related to adaptability [6]. When the environment changes, cognitively flexible individuals recognize this change.…”

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Adaptability Issues in Professional Training of the Military

Belin¹,

Berendeev²,

Mikerin³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)

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Military education has its own specific features. It is assumed that professional training of future officers requires special attention to adaptability issues. The present study investigates this assumption. Adaptability is a crucial issue for operating in the dynamic military environment and future officers should be prepared to respond effectively and appropriately to their professional challenges and demands. In the context of professional military training, it enables future military leaders to adjust their patterns of thinking, feeling or behavior in response to new situational contingencies, experiences, encounters and information. This study also shows that a variety of personal characteristics influence different dimensions of adaptability. Cognitive flexibility was found to be one of the main constituencies of adaptability in general. Results of this study contribute to a better understanding of adaptability issues in professional training of the military and influencing personality characteristics. A questionnaire was used to measure self-assessed and peer assessed adaptability. Thirty respondents participated in the study all being cadets of the third year of study at Ryazan Guard Higher Airborne Command School. Self-assessment in most cases was higher than peer assessment. It shows that the cadets have very strong desire to achieve high adaptability in the professional training and assess their adaptability at the best of their understanding. The instructors see the perspectives of the cadets' future professional training. That is why they assess the cadets' adaptability from the point of view of the officer of the airborne troops.

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Serious gaming for adaptive decision making of military personnel

Cited by 10 publications

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Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod, Rentfrow, & Robbins, 2019

Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod, Rentfrow, & Robbins, 2019

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