Geography Of Thought
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Everyone would agree that a logically true statement in English would be true in Chinese, would be true in French, and would also be true in Japanese. Everyone would agree that when two different people are shown the same painting, they see the same painting. What if this is not the case and everyone is wrong? In The Geography of Thought, Nisbett tries to convey the very same idea that human cognition is not everywhere the same. More specifically, Nisbett brilliantly pointed out that Eastern Asians view the world in a broad contextual and interdependent way, while Westerners view the world in an objective and individualistic way.
A few words need to be said about the author as well as background assumptions for the book before going into evaluation. Richard E. Nisbett has taught psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Fellow Award of the American Psychological Society, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor while at University of Michigan...