The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation
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Resumo: | The environment we live in is known to influence our decisions. Culture has been studied and examined within several spectrums by many people. Also, we already understood that our decisions are not completely rational due to the existence of cognitive biases, a field of study that has been growing interest in the current times. This study aims to relate the two concepts, by trying to understand if being from one type of culture (measured through Hofstede’s cultural dimensions) can influence the level of cognitive biases, more specifically: optimism bias, confirmation bias and intuitive thinking bias. Additionally, I try to extrapolate the implications found into the workplace environment when trying to form multicultural teams to see if it is possible to balance cognitive biases by joining people from opposite cultures. The results of this study show a significant relationship between three of the six cultural dimensions with optimism bias and between two cultural dimensions and intuitive thinking bias. Regarding confirmation bias, no significant relationship was found. Finally, the implications of these results are discussed, along with some limitations and ideas for future studies. |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formationCultureCultural dimensionsMulticultural groupsCognitive biasesWorkplaceTeamsCulturaDimensões culturaisGrupos multiculturaisDesvios cognitivosAmbiente de trabalhoEquipasDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoThe environment we live in is known to influence our decisions. Culture has been studied and examined within several spectrums by many people. Also, we already understood that our decisions are not completely rational due to the existence of cognitive biases, a field of study that has been growing interest in the current times. This study aims to relate the two concepts, by trying to understand if being from one type of culture (measured through Hofstede’s cultural dimensions) can influence the level of cognitive biases, more specifically: optimism bias, confirmation bias and intuitive thinking bias. Additionally, I try to extrapolate the implications found into the workplace environment when trying to form multicultural teams to see if it is possible to balance cognitive biases by joining people from opposite cultures. The results of this study show a significant relationship between three of the six cultural dimensions with optimism bias and between two cultural dimensions and intuitive thinking bias. Regarding confirmation bias, no significant relationship was found. Finally, the implications of these results are discussed, along with some limitations and ideas for future studies.O ambiente em que vivemos é conhecido por influenciar as nossas decisões. A Cultura é algo que tem vindo a ser estudado nas suas diversas perspetivas, por várias pessoas e desde sempre. Para além disso, também já se percebeu que as nossas decisões não são completamente racionais, devido à existência de enviesamentos cognitivos, um campo de estudo que tem ganho cada vez mais interesse nos últimos tempos. Este estudo pretende relacionar os dois conceitos, tentando perceber se o facto de pertencermos a um tipo de cultura (medida através das dimensões culturais de Hofstede), pode influenciar o nosso nível de enviesamentos cognitivos, em particular: otimismo, viés confirmatório e pensamento intuitivo. Adicionalmente, tento extrapolar as implicações encontradas para o ambiente de trabalho, nas situações em que se tentam formar equipas multiculturais, tentado perceber se é possível equilibrar estes enviesamentos cognitivos juntando pessoas de culturas diferentes. Os resultados mostram uma relação significativa entre três das seis dimensões culturais com o enviesamento do otimismo, e entre duas dimensões culturais e o enviesamento do pensamento intuitivo. Relativamente ao viés confirmatório, nenhuma relação significativa foi encontrada. Além disso, as implicações deste estudo são discutidas, tal como algumas limitações e ideias para investigação futura.Mendonça, Cristina Soares PachecoVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaPereira, Joana Sousa2022-07-20T13:21:14Z2022-02-022022-012022-02-02T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/38306TID:202965368enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-12T17:43:47Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/38306Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:31:13.891488Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation Pereira, Joana Sousa Culture Cultural dimensions Multicultural groups Cognitive biases Workplace Teams Cultura Dimensões culturais Grupos multiculturais Desvios cognitivos Ambiente de trabalho Equipas Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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The impact of national culture in cognitive biases and its relationship with workplace teams’ formation |
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Pereira, Joana Sousa |
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Pereira, Joana Sousa |
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Mendonça, Cristina Soares Pacheco Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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Pereira, Joana Sousa |
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Culture Cultural dimensions Multicultural groups Cognitive biases Workplace Teams Cultura Dimensões culturais Grupos multiculturais Desvios cognitivos Ambiente de trabalho Equipas Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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Culture Cultural dimensions Multicultural groups Cognitive biases Workplace Teams Cultura Dimensões culturais Grupos multiculturais Desvios cognitivos Ambiente de trabalho Equipas Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão |
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The environment we live in is known to influence our decisions. Culture has been studied and examined within several spectrums by many people. Also, we already understood that our decisions are not completely rational due to the existence of cognitive biases, a field of study that has been growing interest in the current times. This study aims to relate the two concepts, by trying to understand if being from one type of culture (measured through Hofstede’s cultural dimensions) can influence the level of cognitive biases, more specifically: optimism bias, confirmation bias and intuitive thinking bias. Additionally, I try to extrapolate the implications found into the workplace environment when trying to form multicultural teams to see if it is possible to balance cognitive biases by joining people from opposite cultures. The results of this study show a significant relationship between three of the six cultural dimensions with optimism bias and between two cultural dimensions and intuitive thinking bias. Regarding confirmation bias, no significant relationship was found. Finally, the implications of these results are discussed, along with some limitations and ideas for future studies. |
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2022-07-20T13:21:14Z 2022-02-02 2022-01 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z |
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