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This research aims to examine how task interruptions affect individual decision-making performance, particularly focusing on task complexity.

March 1, 1999Decision Sciences

The Influence of Task Interruption on Individual Decision Making: An Information Overload Perspective

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This research aims to examine how task interruptions affect individual decision-making performance, particularly focusing on task complexity.
Conducted two experiments to investigate the effects of interruptions on decision-making performance.
Analyzed performance variations between simple and complex tasks under different interruption scenarios.
Interruptions improved decision-making performance on simple tasks.
Complex tasks saw reduced performance with increased interruption frequency and content dissimilarity between tasks.

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Experiments reveal that interruptions affect decision-making performance differently for simple and complex tasks, suggesting implications for workplace practices.

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Speier et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69df32707ae893756261415d https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01613.x

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Experiments reveal that interruptions affect decision-making performance differently for simple and complex tasks, suggesting implications for workplace practices.

The Influence of Task Interruption on Individual Decision Making: An Information Overload Perspective

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The Influence of Task Interruption on Individual Decision Making: An Information Overload Perspective

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