The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why - Ph.D. Richard Nisbett
- In english, first published in 2004.
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.
-> First forray for me into the psychological and historical understanding of cultural differences. It provived me with new insights, quite useful ones from a part of the world more and more overwhelming yet so difficult to get to understand.
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.
-> First forray for me into the psychological and historical understanding of cultural differences. It provived me with new insights, quite useful ones from a part of the world more and more overwhelming yet so difficult to get to understand.