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This collectivist decision-making among Arabic-speaking migrants appeared to contribute to a significant delay in accessing needed medical services.
Some of her purist colleagues might dispute the collectivist language - decisions about training, they say, are down to individuals and their employers; the state's past efforts at matching people and jobs have not been successful.
Interpreting the possible role of this cortical brain network recruited by the collectivists during the decision process, their strategy might likely be called a 'balancing and weighing strategy'.
Characterizing the different contributing areas of the network would provide a cue on how these areas might be used in collectivists to reach a decision.
42 Afghanistan is a collectivist society where most decisions are made by the family for the benefit of the family as a whole.
Such differential recruitment of cortical vs. subcortical structures points to fundamentally different strategies of individualists and collectivists when facing decisions.
The findings here are however consistent with those of Mumtaz and Sulway [ 16, 44] in Pakistan and Gupta et al. [ 18] in Ghana, where the concept of individual autonomy was found to be inconsistent with a reality of a more collectivist community structure in which decision-making concerning women's reproductive health occurred.
The neurobiological correlate of such a strategy found in the present study supports this notion, but also reveals the fundamental difference to the strategy of the collectivists: individualists seemed to be more emotionally engaged in a decision process, entering a different level of processing than collectivists.
They did not try to weigh each decision in each possible way as the collectivists did, but aimed at detecting the social relevance, and consecutively, the possible menace of the decision with regard to their own social status.
Whereas collectivists seem to concentrate on moral reasoning aspects when solving a decision, individualists are more involved with the moral emotion aspect.
This dominant role of perceived norm may be, at least in part, attributable to the more collectivist nature of African societies in contrast to the more individualistic decision-making that occurs in Europe and North America [ 43, 44].
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