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Doodle Around the World: Online Scheduling Behavior Reflects Cultural Differences in Time Perception and Group Decision-Making
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@MISC{Reinecke_doodlearound,
author = {Katharina Reinecke and Minh Khoa Nguyen and Abraham Bernstein and Michael Näf and Krzysztof Z. Gajos},
title = {Doodle Around the World: Online Scheduling Behavior Reflects Cultural Differences in Time Perception and Group Decision-Making},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Event scheduling is a group decision-making process in which social dynamics influence people’s choices and the overall outcome. As a result, scheduling is not simply a matter of finding a mutually agreeable time, but a process that is shaped by social norms and values, which can highly vary between countries. To investigate the influence of national culture on people’s scheduling behavior we analyzed more than 1.5 million Doodle date/time polls from 211 countries. We found strong correlations between characteristics of national culture and several behavioral phenomena, such as that poll participants from collectivist countries respond earlier, agree to fewer options but find more consensus than predominantly individualist societies. Our study provides empirical evidence of behavioral differences in group decision-making and time perception with implications for cross-cultural collaborative work.
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group decision-making time perception behavior reflects cultural difference national culture several behavioral phenomenon cross-cultural collaborative work behavioral difference empirical evidence strong correlation poll participant event scheduling collectivist country individualist society agreeable time social norm group decision-making process overall outcome social dynamic influence people doodle date time poll
