The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why Nisbett RichardPaperback
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why Nisbett RichardPaperback A "landmark book" (Robert J. But what if everyone is wrong? Sternberg, president of the…
Specifikacia The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why Nisbett RichardPaperback
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why Nisbett RichardPaperback
A "landmark book" (Robert J. But what if everyone is wrong? Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not "hard-wired" but a function of culture.Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking.
As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic"--drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually think about--and even see--the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient