Cross-Culture study of Biases in Location Judgments
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This paper examined cultural impacts on absolute and relative location estimates of 12 Eastern China cities, based on questionnaires of each city’s latitude and distances between city pairs. Linear regression analysis of the latitude estimates revealed that estimated latitude of a city is significantly related to its actual latitude. MDS analysis of the distance estimates revealed the gap that divided Eastern China into two regions and cultural-related causation of the gap was explained in detail. In particular, the Chinese language and its impact on spatial cognition were addressed. Results were compared with North America comparison was made to conclude important features of spatial cognition in common: the categorical storage of spatial information and the absolute-relative location reasoning process.
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