From Individual Minds to Collective Decisions: The Function and Contribution of Cognitive Mapping

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Published: 2024-07-27
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Cognitive mapping, Participatory decision-making, Tacit knowledge, Mental models, Group collaboration, Decision legitimacy, Social learning

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Didit Darmawan
Universitas Sunan Giri Surabaya, Indonesia

Abstract

This literature study examines the role and contributions of cognitive mapping in participatory decision-making processes. Through a systematic qualitative analysis, it investigates how cognitive mapping functions as a mechanism for extracting and aligning tacit knowledge among participants, and evaluates its impact on the quality of both the process and the outcomes of collective decisions. The findings reveal that cognitive mapping serves as a powerful tool for externalizing individual mental models, facilitating the negotiation of meaning, and fostering iterative social learning. Regarding process quality, it significantly enhances communication transparency, deepens discussion, manages conflict constructively, and improves group efficiency. Concerning outcomes, it contributes to more robust and legitimate decisions, strengthens implementation capacity and adaptive learning, creates reusable knowledge artifacts, fosters innovative solutions, and builds social capital and group cohesion. The study concludes that cognitive mapping transcends being a mere recording technique; it is a transformative methodology that fundamentally improves the ecology of participatory deliberation by making collective cognition visible, negotiable, and actionable, thereby leading to more sustainable and widely supported solutions for complex problems.

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024): Journal of Social Science Studies (JOS3)

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Darmawan, D. (2024). From Individual Minds to Collective Decisions: The Function and Contribution of Cognitive Mapping. Journal of Social Science Studies, 4(2), 467-476. https://jos3journals.id/index.php/jos3/article/view/387

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