The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently

ISBN-13: 9781529309416 / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Richard E. Nisbett

Opis

How people actually experience - 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.

Recenzje

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. Malcolm Gladwell

O autorze

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.