The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2019
Summary
‘The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of 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 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529309416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529309417 |
| Author: | Richard E. Nisbett |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Business |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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A psychology professor dares to compare how Asians and Americans think. The upshot of Nisbett’s research is that differences are real. They might not always be for the better, but they matter. - Forbes
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.The man whose ideas led to Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and to Nudge - The Times[A] landmark book. The Geography of Thought shows that understanding of how individuals in eastern cultures think is not just nice, but necessary, if we wish to solve the problems we confront in the world today. We ignore the lessons of this book at our peril.Nisbett’s results indicate fundamental differences in the ways Westerners and East Asians view the word.Ground-breaking workAbout The Author
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D., has taught psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan, where he is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor. He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Fellow Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2002 became the first social psychologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in a generation. The co-author of Culture of Honor and numerous other books and articles, he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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