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- Title: Analytic-Holistic Thinking, Information Use, and Sensemaking During Unfolding Events
- Author : Mei-Hua Lin
- Release Date : January 18, 2013
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 17263 KB
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In complex domains such as commerce, military operations, transportation, and humanitarian efforts, practitioners are sometimes overwhelmed by uncertain, contradictory, and dynamic information. They must obtain, organize, interpret, and use this information often under time pressure and high stakes during sensemaking. While sensemaking is a gateway to information management, sensemaking also depends on information management; the gathering and use of information provides the raw material for sensemaking. These processes work together to help people understand complex situations but are vulnerable to cultural as well as individual variation in cognition. This study investigated individual cognitive and personality differences that may affect information management and sensemaking. Analytic-Holistic (AH) thinking was expected to influence information use and sensemaking (Lin and Klein, 2008). I investigated sensemaking using two scenarios in which dispositional and situational information was introduced sequentially. Each time new information, either dispositional or situational, was presented, participants identified problems and made decisions. I expected that analytic thinkers would make dispositional attribution and holistic thinkers would make situational attribution. Participants also selected and rated the relevance of the information presented. In addition, participants recalled information from an earlier scenario. I used moderated multiple regression analyses and correlation analyses to understand the relationships between individual differences, information use, and sensemaking.