Journal Article Critique #5 (CCU)

Citation: Brown, Jac. 2011. Decision making styles East and West: Is it time to move beyond cross-cultural research?. Australia. Academic Journals.

Decision making styles between Eastern and Western people are different. This study is talking about the difference decision making between Australian, Malaysian, and Singapore people. The participants of the research are six hundred and seventy three university student in those three countries. This study explores patterns of decision making within the context of culture, age, and sex. The countries of Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore are particularly interesting because all three are in the Asia-Pacific region where a common context is shared.

The results are discussed in terms of cultural differences, such as; beliefs, values, and behaviors. This study got some hypothesis, one of them is that Asian respondents would score higher on non-vigilant decision making styles than Australian respondents. The hypothesis was partially supported as the Malaysian sample reported higher scores on hyper-vigilance than the Australian sample. But the other hypothesis reflected different things. This is caused by the different culture  of those three countries, because different culture also makes different way of thinking of people.