TY - BOOK AU - Nisbett,Richard E. TI - The geography of thought: how Asians and Westerners think differently ... and why SN - 978-0-7432-5535-6 PY - 2004/// CY - New York [u.a.] PB - Free Press KW - Gesellschaft KW - Kognition KW - Kultur KW - Ostasien KW - Zentralasien KW - Kulturvergleich KW - Ethnopsychologie KW - Völkerpsychologie KW - Geschichte KW - Europa N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - $uhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/hebis-darmstadt/toc/110226755.pdf$mDE-603$nBibl.ISILDE-603$qpdf/application$yInhaltsverzeichnis$304 ER -