{"id":941,"date":"2013-06-10T07:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/?p=941"},"modified":"2013-07-22T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:47:55","slug":"geopgraphy-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"book : geography of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ch\/books?id=Txa8Q6w3X8cC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Richard+Nisbett%22&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=9ni1UeG4AcTCO5eQgZgN&amp;ved=0CDIQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nisbett\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/files\/2013\/06\/Bildschirmfoto-2013-06-10-um-08.58.42-226x300.png\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese observers instead commented on the background environment &#8212; and the different &#8220;seeings&#8221; are a clue to profound cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Nisbett shows in\u00a0<i><a title=\"ebook\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ch\/books?id=Txa8Q6w3X8cC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Richard+Nisbett%22&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=9ni1UeG4AcTCO5eQgZgN&amp;ved=0CDIQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">The Geography of Thought<\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0people think about &#8212; and even see &#8212; the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China.\u00a0<i>The Geography of Thought<\/i>\u00a0documents Professor Nisbett&#8217;s groundbreaking research in cultural psychology, addressing questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?<\/li>\n<li>Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?<\/li>\n<li>Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important,\u00a0<i>The Geography of Thought<\/i>\u00a0offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that might be able to span it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258879],"tags":[76661],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-archive-idss-2013","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/idss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}