A "landmark book" (Robert J.
At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it..
From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius.
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 behavior.
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.
But what if everyone is wrong? The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbett\'s groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually 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.
Everyone knows that while different cultures Think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking.
Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world\'s preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not "hard-wired" but a function of culture.
A "landmark book" (Robert J
