"I Can Do It in No Time!" Time Predictions in the Cultural Context.

Two studies were conducted to examine predictions of task completion times and the factors that influence time planning in the cultural context. European-American and Asian adults (Study 1) and European-American, Asian-American, Chinese college students (Study 2) were asked to predict task completio...

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Publicado en:Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 551 - 566
Autores principales: Guan, Li, Wang, Qi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jun2026
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        Task performance
        Asian Americans
        Conformity
        Episodic memory
        Culture
        Learning
        Experience
        Students
        Social skills
        Time management
        Memory
        Analysis of variance
        Psychology of college students
        Student attitudes
        Self-perception
        European Americans
        Statistical power analysis
        Research funding
        Data analysis
        Statistical sampling
        Experimental design
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        Comparative studies
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          Task performance
          Asian Americans
          Conformity
          Episodic memory
          Culture
          Learning
          Experience
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          Experimental design
          Statistics
          Comparative studies
          Time
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        culture
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      ab: Two studies were conducted to examine predictions of task completion times and the factors that influence time planning in the cultural context. European-American and Asian adults (Study 1) and European-American, Asian-American, Chinese college students (Study 2) were asked to predict task completion times in hypothetical scenarios. Participants were randomly assigned to a lesson-learning condition where they were reminded of relevant past experiences, a social consequence condition where they were warned of potential negative social consequences of planning failure, or a control condition. Study 1 revealed that Asians, but not European Americans, predicted longer task completion times in the two experimental conditions than controls. Study 2 showed that although European Americans, Asian Americans, and Chinese all provided longer predicted times in the two experimental conditions than controls, Chinese made the most pronounced increase in their time predictions. These original findings have important implications for the planning fallacy and its intervention.
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