The Geography of Thought How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why First Edition by Richard Nisbett ISBN 978-0743255356 0743255356
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ISBN 10: 0743255356
ISBN 13: 978-0743255356
Author: Richard Nisbett
A “landmark book” (Robert J. 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. But what if everyone is wrong?
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. 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. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior.
From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it.
Table of contents:
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The Syllogism and the Tao
Philosophy, Science, and Society in Ancient Greece and China -
The Social Origins of Mind
Economics, Social Practices, and Thought -
Living Together vs. Going It Alone
Social Life and Sense of Self in the Modern East and West -
“Eyes in Back of Your Head” or “Keep Your Eye on the Ball”?
Envisioning the World -
“The Bad Seed” or “The Other Boys Made Him Do It”?
Causal Attribution and Causal Modeling East and West -
Is the World Made Up of Nouns or Verbs?
Categories and Rules vs. Relationships and Similarities -
“That’s Not Logical” or “You’ve Got a Point There”?
Logic and the Law of Noncontradiction vs. Dialectics and the Middle Way -
And If the Nature of Thought Is Not Everywhere the Same?
Implications for Psychology, Philosophy, Education, and Everyday Life
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