The purpose of this study is to see whether hindsight bias is stronger among Japanese people than among French people using conditional reasoning and probability judgment task. We describe the relation between analytic thought (Westerners) and holistic thought (Easterners) in terms of SuperP. SuperP is a superordinate principle that describes a set of events possibly related to the p in an ‘if ...

The present research is intended to find out whether individuals with analytic or holistic thought have different attribution processes. Cross-cultural research has suggested that East Asians, who tend to have a holistic thought pattern, differ in cognitive process from Westerners, who tend to engage in analytic thought. However, studies that found cultural difference in attribution process may...

Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and w...

The electric catfishes of African rivers and lakes, once depicted on Egyptian tomb art, have been largely overlooked in histories and reviews of electric fish biology and animal electricity. This article examines how Westerners, especially Dominican and Jesuit missionaries, discovered them in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa at the beginning of the seventeenth century. What transpired took pl...

The mental number line (MNL) hypothesis is that numbers are mentally represented in spatial format, particularly in leftto-right orientation among Westerners. The MNL has received support from various paradigms, but it remains controversial as it is challenged by alternative models. Here we used an individual differences approach to assess spatialnumerical associations (SNAs) across a variety o...

BACKGROUND Although the anterolateral thigh flap has been extensively used for head and neck reconstruction in Asia, reported variations of vascular anatomy seem confusing and may have contributed to the unpopularity of this flap in the United States. The purposes of this study are to classify the vascular anatomy and to assess the suitability of this flap for head and neck reconstruction in a ...

In the year 2000, 529 000 maternal deaths were recorded throughout the world. Of these, 95% occurred in Africa and Asia, 4% in Latin America and the Caribbean, and less than 1% in the developed countries. The global maternal mortality rate is 400 per 100 000 live births, while it is 830/100 000 in Africa, followed by 330/100 000 in Asia (excluding Japan). Worldwide, 13 developing countries acco...

Nisbett et al. (2001) claim that Easterners are more likely to use holistic thinking to solve problems, whereas Westerners are more likely to use analytic thinking. This distinction in cognitive behaviors has often been explained by using a framework based on the fact that Western culture favors independent self-construal (individualist culture) and Eastern culture favors interdependent self-co...

Research on perception and cognition suggests that whereas East Asians view the world holistically, attending to the entire field and relations among objects, Westerners view the world analytically, focusing on the attributes of salient objects. These propositions were examined in the change-blindness paradigm. Research in that paradigm finds American participants to be more sensitive to change...

patterns that acquire meaning in the proper context. Different percussion patterns inTuesday March 17 ' ,1970 -photo by oppenheimer night. Hsiao En, the brave, troubled fisherman was played by a greybearded Peter Lu. His loyal, concerned daughter was portrayed by Grace Chen. Ni Jung and Li Chun were played by S.H. Sun and C.F. Hsiao. One of these characters had a fierce painted face and red bea...