The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - And Why - Brossura

Richard E. Nisbett

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ISBN 10: 1857883535 ISBN 13: 9781857883534

Casa editrice: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005

Riassunto

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, and that have survived into the modern world. 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 comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. 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 behaviour.

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'Few Americans have done as much to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.' --Malcolm Gladwell

'Cultural psychology has come of age and Richard Nisbett's book will surely become one of the canonical texts of this provocative discipline.' --Richard A. Schweder, anthropologist and William Claude Reavis Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago

'An important, research-based challenge to the assumption widespread among cognitive scientists that thinking the world over is fundamentally the same.' --Howard Gardner, Harvard University, author of Frames of Mind: Theories of Multiple Intelligences

'The cultural differences in cognition, demonstrated in this ground-breaking work, are far more profound and wide-ranging than anybody in the field could have possibly imagined just a decade ago.The findings are surprising for universalists; remarkable for culturalists; and regardless, they are most thought-provoking for all students of human cognition.' --Shinobu Kitayama, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

'This is another landmark book by University of Michigan psychologist Richard E. Nisbett. We ignore the lessons of this book at our peril.' --Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education,Yale University; President-Elect, American Psychological Association

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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, and that have survived into the modern world.

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• Editore: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1857883535
• ISBN 13: 9781857883534
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288