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«The most influential thinker in my life is psychologist Richard Nisbett. Essentially, he gave me my own perspective on the world.» - Malcolm Gladwell
«One of the world's leading thinkers» - Daily Telegraph
When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they focused on a large fish swimming among smaller fish. On the other hand, the Japanese observers made remarks about the environment in which they were... and these different "perceptions" are a clue to the deeper cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. In his book The Geography of Thought, Professor Nisbett depicts how people think - and even see - the world differently, due to the different ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and have survived to the modern world.
As a result, East Asia thinks "holistically" - focusing on the overall perceptual field and the relationships between objects and events within that field. In contrast to Western ways of thinking, Eastern thought relies much less on categories or formal logic and is fundamentally dialectical, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. Conversely, Westerners focus on important objects or people, use characteristics to categorize them, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior.
Pages: 288, Year of Publication: 0709, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm
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- Author
- Richard Nisbett
- Publisher
- John Murray Press One (JMP-One)
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Release Date
- 09/07/2019
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781529309416
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