Clock time vs. event time: Temporal culture or self-regulation?
Cross-cultural research documented two types of temporal culture governing the way individuals schedule tasks over time: clock-time, where individuals let an external clock dictate when tasks begin/end; and eventtime, where tasks are planned relative to other tasks and individuals transition between...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 665 - 668 |
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Academic Press Inc.
May 2011
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