The culture assimilator: An approach to cross-cultural training.

Describes the construction of self-administered programed culture training manuals, called culture assimilators. These programs provide an apparently effective method for assisting members of 1 culture to interact and adjust successfully with members of another culture. Culture assimilators have been constructed for the Arab countries, Iran, Thailand, Central America, and Greece. The steps involved in the development of these programs, and studies validating the culture assimilator programs under laboratory and field conditions are described. (21 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)