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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Nisbett, Richard E. Geography of thought. New York : Free Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002032178 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard E Nisbett |
ISBN: | 9781857884197 1857884191 9781439106679 1439106673 |
OCLC Number: | 815449635 |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic document (xxiii, 263 pages) : illustrations) |
Contents: | 1. The syllogism and the Tao : philosophy, science, and society in ancient Greece and China -- 2. The social origins of mind : economics, social practices, and thought -- 3. Living together vs. going it alone : social life and sense of self in the modern East and West -- 4. "Eyes in back of your head" or "Keep your eye on the ball"? : envisioning the world -- 5. "The bad seed" or "The other boys made him do it"? : causal attribution and causal modeling East and West -- 6. Is the world made up of nouns or verbs? : categories and rules vs. relationships and similarities -- 7. "Ce n'est pas logique" or "You've got a point there"? : logic and the law of noncontradiction vs. dialectic and the middle way -- 8. And if the nature of thought is not everywhere the same? : implications for psychology, philosophy, education, and everyday life -- Epilogue. The end of psychology or the clash of mentalities? : the longevity of differences. |
Responsibility: | Richard E. Nisbett. |
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The man whose ideas led to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and to Nudge * The Times * [A] landmark book. The Geography of Thought shows that understanding of how individuals in eastern cultures think is not just nice, but necessary, if we wish to solve the problems we confront in the world today. We ignore the lessons of this book at our peril. -- Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association Westerners and Easterners see the world differently. Nisbett hopes that his work will change the way the cultures view each other. * New Scientist * One of the world's leading thinkers * Daily Telegraph * A psychology professor dares to compare how Asians and Americans think. The upshot of Nisbett's research is that differences are real. They might not always be for the better, but they matter. * Forbes * Geography of Thought compares people from East Asia (Korea, China and Japan) with Westerners (from Europe, the British commonwealth and North America). Westerners typically see categories where Asians typically see relationships. Such differences in thinking can trip up business and political relationships * Wall Street Journal * The fascinating cultural reason why Westerners and East Asians have polar opposite understandings of truth * Business Insider * Nisbett's results indicate fundamental differences in the ways Westerners and East Asians view the word. -- Kate Volpe, Association for Psychological Science The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell Read more...

