The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently, and why / Richard E. Nisbett.

By:

Nisbett, Richard E [author. ]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Nicholas Brealey Pub., c2003.Description: 263 S. : graph. DarstISBN:

1857883535

Uniform titles:

The Geography of thought :

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

BF311

Other classification:

73.61
73.78
CV 7500

Summary: 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 ... and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China.

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Books	GESM Library Main Library	English Non-Fiction Adolescent-Adult	ENA/ 153 NIS	Available		E0006583

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 ... and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China.

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