Cultural differences in dynamic decision-making strategies in a non-linear, time-delayed task

Complex Problem Solving: What It Is and What It Is Not

“…Numerous articles on the subject have been published in recent years, documenting the increasing research activity relating to this field. In the following collection of papers we list only those published in 2010 and later: theoretical papers (Blech and Funke, 2010; Funke, 2010; Knauff and Wolf, 2010; Leutner et al, 2012; Selten et al, 2012; Wüstenberg et al, 2012; Greiff et al, 2013b; Fischer and Neubert, 2015; Schoppek and Fischer, 2015), papers about measurement issues (Danner et al, 2011a; Greiff et al, 2012, 2015a; Alison et al, 2013; Gobert et al, 2015; Greiff and Fischer, 2013; Herde et al, 2016; Stadler et al, 2016), papers about applications (Fischer and Neubert, 2015; Ederer et al, 2016; Tremblay et al, 2017), papers about differential effects (Barth and Funke, 2010; Danner et al, 2011b; Beckmann and Goode, 2014; Greiff and Neubert, 2014; Scherer et al, 2015; Meißner et al, 2016; Wüstenberg et al, 2016), one paper about developmental effects (Frischkorn et al, 2014), one paper with a neuroscience background (Osman, 2012) 1 , papers about cultural differences (Güss and Dörner, 2011; Sonnleitner et al, 2014; Güss et al, 2015), papers about validity issues (Goode and Beckmann, 2010; Greiff et al, 2013c; Schweizer et al, 2013; Mainert et al, 2015; Funke et al, 2017; Greiff et al, 2017, 2015b; Kretzschmar et al, 2016; Kretzschmar, 2017), review papers and meta-analyses (Osman, 2010; Stadler et al, 2015), and finally books (Qudrat-Ullah, 2015; Csapó and Funke, 2017b) and book chapters (Funke, 2012; Hotaling et al, 2015; Funke and Greiff, 2017; Greiff and Funke, 2017; Csapó and Funke, 2017a; Fischer et al, 2017; Molnàr et al, 2017; Tobinski and Fritz, 2017; Viehrig et al, 2017). In addition, a new “Journal of Dynamic Decision Making” (JDDM) has been launched (Fischer et al, 2015, 2016) to give the field an open-access outlet for research and discussion.…”

Results of Beer Game Trials Played by Natural Resource Managers Versus Students: Does Age Influence Ordering Decisions?

“…Whenever the context of the decision situation changes (e.g., changing the decision interval in order to speed up or slow down experience generation; increasing the transparency and therefore knowledge of the model or task being managed; or the nature of the decision information such as interface design and types of feedback provided to the user), participants tend to do somewhat better [61][62][63][64]66,67,70,71], or at least no worse than their prior performance without the added transparency [38,43,46,65,70,[72][73][74]. Lastly, personal characteristics that likely impact performance (e.g., stated goals; mental model or cognitive styles; the number of players in the simulator) have also shown mixed results, with improved performance resulting from whole system goals and a higher degree of similarity in participant mental model with the structure of the simulation [74][75][76][77][78]. Other studies have shown no effect on performance due to personal characteristics [42,67,[72][73][74].…”

Predicted causality in decision making: the role of culture

“…German, U.S., Indian, Filipino, and Brazilian participants were presented with the dynamic, non-transparent task Coldstore (Güss and Dörner, 2011). Participants attempted to regulate a broken thermostat which was simulated on the computer and to maintain an ideal temperature during this task.…”