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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Whyby Richard Nisbett
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment — and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people 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. The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as:
Review:"Writing dispassionately yet with engagement, Nisbett explains the differences as 'an inevitable consequence of using different tools to understand the world.'" Publishers Weekly
Review:"Nisbett's readable presentation has admirable depth in history, philosophy, and culture....This outstanding book makes key contributions to education, science, health, business, politics, language, and religion." Library Journal
Review:"The book is written in a chatty and reader-friendly style. The experiments are sometimes ingenious, and the results are sometimes provocative." New York Times
Review:"Understanding the thought processes of other cultures may very well turn out to be critical to the survival of Western civilization. Unfortunately, it may be our very nature to discount or completely ignore any system that doesn't mesh with our own." Providence Journal
Synopsis:Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the divergent ways Eastern and Western societies see and understand the world.
When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment. These different “seeings” are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Nisbett demonstrates in The Geography of Thought, people think about and see the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. Synopsis:An eminent psychologist boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in an engaging exploration of the divergent ways Eastern and Western societies see and understand the world.
About the AuthorRichard E. Nisbett has taught psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan, where he is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor.
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