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The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbetts groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually think aboutand even seethe world differently because of differing ecologies social structures philosophies and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China As a result East Asian thought is holisticdrawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field By contrast Westerners focus on salient objects or people use attributes to assign them to categories and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior From feng shui to metaphysics from comparative linguistics to economic history a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius At a moment in history when the need for crosscultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it. 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