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39 Cultural Perspectives on Thinking: Conversations with Richard Nisbett Inference Q1 How did collaborating with Eastern scholars impact Nisbett's perspective? Note * holism : the belief that each thing is a whole that is more important than the parts that make it up Thanks for talking with me today, Professor Nisbett. So, you are a psychologist trained in the field of “cultural differences.” Tell me how you became interested in this topic. My whole career has been focused on people’s reasoning. When I was starting out, I read a book entitled Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples . It deals with the notion of holism * , and why, traditionally, there is a lack of interest in formal logic among Eastern peoples. Well, I am an American, and we think everybody is just like us. I mean, we know that there are some differences in attitudes, preferences, and so on, but, in general, we think everyone is mostly the same. So, what made you shift your research toward cultural comparisons? When I started doing research with Eastern scholars, I discovered we had qualitative differences and approaches across a variety of subjects. The Asians were thinking one way, and the Westerners were thinking another way. It was striking to see how big the differences actually were. Around this time, I had some East Asian graduate students from Korea and Japan who were pursuing the same sort of research. These East Asian students were so brilliant, but in ways I was unaccustomed to. So I began to wonder more about these cultural differences in terms of our thinking styles. Because of all of this, I started to take the subject of cultural differences seriously. Find words which mean: • an idea, a belief or an understanding of something: • connected with what something is like or how good it is: psychologist reasoning notion holism formal logic qualitative brilliant be unaccustomed to in terms of Lee: Lee: Nisbett: Nisbett: Reading 5 10 15 20