What goes up must ... keep going up? Cultural differences in cognitive styles influence evaluations of dynamic performance

• Main Authors: FERRIS, D. Lance, REB, Jochen, LIAN, Huiwen, SIM, Samantha, ANG, Dionysius
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Analytic Thinking; Cognitive Style; Culture; Dynamic Performance; Holistic Thinking; Naïve Extrapolation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Ratings; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5356; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6355/viewcontent/CognitiveStylesDynPerf_2017_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Past research on dynamic workplace performance evaluation has taken as axiomatic that temporal performance trends produce naïve extrapolation effects on performance ratings. That is, we naïvely assume that an individual whose performance has trended upward over time will continue to improve, and rat...