| Description |
xxiii, 263 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. The Syllogism and the Tao: Philosophy, Science, and Society in Ancient Greece and China -- 2. The Social Origins of Mind: Economics, Social Practices, and Thought -- 3. Living Together vs. Going It Alone: Social Life and Sense of Self in the Modern East and West -- 4. "Eyes in Back of Your Head" or "Keep Your Eye on the Ball"?: Envisioning the World -- 5. "The Bad Seed" or "The Other Boys Made Him Do It"?: Causal Attribution and Causal Modeling East and West -- 6. Is the World Made Up of Nouns or Verbs?: Categories and Rules vs. Relationships and Similarities -- 7. "Ce N'est Pas Logique" or "You've Got a Point There"?: Logic and the Law of Noncontradiction vs. Dialectics and the Middle Way -- 8. And If the Nature of Thought Is Not Everywhere the Same?: Implications for Psychology, Philosophy, Education, and Everyday Life -- Epilogue: The End of Psychology or the Clash of Mentalities?: The Longevity of Differences |
| Summary |
"When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett shows 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 profund cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As the author shows, 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. This book documents Professor Nisbett's ground breaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as: Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid? ; Why do Asians find it so difficult to disentagle an object from its surroundigns? ; and Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?" - back cover |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Contents:1. The Syllogism and the Tao: Philosophy, Science, and Society in Ancient Greece and China -- 2. The Social Origins of Mind: Economics, Social Practices, and Thought -- 3. Living Together vs. Going It Alone: Social Life and Sense of Self in the Modern East and West -- 4. "Eyes in Back of Your Head" or "Keep Your Eye on the Ball"?: Envisioning the World -- 5. "The Bad Seed" or "The Other Boys Made Him Do It"?: Causal Attribution and Causal Modeling East and West -- 6. Is the World Made Up of Nouns or Verbs?: Categories and Rules vs. Relationships and Similarities -- 7. "Ce N'est Pas Logique" or "You've Got a Point There"?: Logic and the Law of Noncontradiction vs. Dialectics and the Middle Way -- 8. And If the Nature of Thought Is Not Everywhere the Same?: Implications for Psychology, Philosophy, Education, and Everyday Life -- Epilogue: The End of Psychology or the Clash of Mentalities?: The Longevity of Differences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Thought and thinking.
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Cognition and culture.
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East and West.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Mental Processes.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Western World.
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| SUBJECT |
Far East. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005202 |
| LC no. |
2002032178 |
| ISBN |
0743216466 hardcover |
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0743255356 paperback |
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