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Running Head: CULTURE AND THOUGHT Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition
We propose a theory of how systems of thought arise on the basis of differing cultural practices and argue that the theory accounts for substantial differences in East Asian and Western thought processes. We find East Asians to be more holistic, attending to the entire field and assigning causality to it, making relatively little use of categories and formal logic, and relying on “dialectical” ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transcultural Studies
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1930-6253,2375-1606
DOI: 10.1163/23751606-00501003