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Indlæser... The Geography of Thought (udgave 2005)af Richard E. Nisbett
Work InformationThe Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why af Richard E. Nisbett
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |    ) PattyLee | Dec 14, 2021 | ) OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |  ) imagists | Sep 19, 2021 | "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?" cpcs-acts | Sep 24, 2020 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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As someone who lives in the between the words of Western and Asian thought, I had to get my hands on this book. This book had some wonderful material but could have used some just never had that WOW moment where something just clicked. It's really a shame because this topic is really just up my alley.
The difference can be summarized as follows: Eastern thought tends to be more holistic, cyclical, and relationship-oriented. While Western thought tends to be more modular, linear, and object-oriented.
The book (unintentionally?) aims for a higher-brow audience who would appreciate a more PhD vocabulary and writing style. I found it off-putting. Though I don't think the authors intentionally wrote it that way, it's just the way they think. Perhaps, they should write a book on PhD thought process vs. common thought process.
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