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Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of BehaviorISBN 0805800484 (0-8058-0048-4)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the Southby Richard E. Nisbett , Dov CohenISBN 0813319935 (0-8133-1993-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South'Book summary:In the United States, the homicide rate in the South is consistently higher than the rate in the North. In this brilliantly argued book, Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen use this fact as a starting point for an exploration of the underlying reasons for violence.According to Nisbett and Cohen, the increased tendency of white southerners to commit certain kinds of violence is not due to socioeconomic class, population density, the legacy of slavery, or the heat of the South; it is the result of a culture of honor in which a mans reputation is central to his economic survival. Working from historical, survey, social policy, and experimental data, the authors show that in the South it is more acceptable to be violent in response to an insult, in order to protect home and property, and to aid in socializing children. These values are reflected not only in what southerners say, but also in the institutional practices of the South, the actions of Southerners, and their physiological responses to perceived affronts.In this lively and intriguing account, the authors combine bold theory and careful methodology to reveal a set of central beliefs that can contribute to increased violence. More broadly, they show us the interaction between culture, economics, and individual behavior. This engaging study will be of interest to students, educated lay readers, and scholars.[via]More editions of Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South:
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The Geography of Thoughtby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743216466 (0-7432-1646-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Thought'Book summary:Everyone knows that while different cultures may think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. Everyone knows that whatever the skin color, nationality, or religion, every human being uses the same tools for perception, for memory, and for reasoning. Everyone knows that a logically true statement is true in English, German, or Hindi. Everyone knows that when a Chinese and an American look at the same painting, they see the same painting.
But what if everyone is wrong?
When psychologist Richard E. Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment -- and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought, people actually think about -- and even see -- the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" -- drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to catergories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior.
The Geography of Thought documents Professor Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology, a series of comparative studies both persuasive in their rigor and startling in their conclusions, addressing questions such as:
" Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra and arithmetic, but not geometry, the brilliant achievement of such Greeks as Euclid?
" Why do East Asians find it so difficult to disentangle an object from its surroundings?
" Why do Western infants learn nouns more rapidly than verbs, when it is the other way around in East Asia?
" What are the implications of these cognitive differences for the future of international politics? Do they support a Fukuyamaesque "end of history" scenario or a Huntingtonian "clash of civilizations"?
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 cross-cultural 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 might be able to span it. [via]
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Whyby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0743255356 (0-7432-5535-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why'Book summary:Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the divergent ways Eastern and Western societies see and understand the world.
When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment. These different seeings are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. For, as Nisbett demonstrates in The Geography of Thought, people think about and see the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China and that have survived into the modern world. [via]
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Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgmentby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0134450736 (0-13-445073-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and Discoveryby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0262081601 (0-262-08160-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and Discoveryby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0262580969 (0-262-58096-9)
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The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychologyby Lee Ross, Richard E. NisbettISBN 007053926X (0-07-053926-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Rules for Reasoningby Richard E. NisbettISBN 0805812571 (0-8058-1257-1)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Social Psychologyby Richard E. Nisbett , Dacher KeltnerISBN 0393978753 (0-393-97875-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Thought and Feeling: Cognitive Alteration of Feeling Statesby Richard E. Nisbett , Harvey LondonISBN 0202361764 (0-202-36176-4)
Softcover, Aldine De Gruyter
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thought and Feeling: Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States'Book summary:Recently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The original essays in this volume center on one aspect of this process of attribution: The extent to which the perception of events and causes results in the determination, modification, or alteration of emotions, feelings, and affective states.
This book is divided into five sections, each of which elucidates and extends these theoretical conceptions. Part 1 provides a historical background and analytical framework for the rest of the book. Part 2 presents chapters dealing with the sorts of internal cues which may give rise to a feeling state. Part 3 presents a chapter discussing the evaluative needs aroused by the internal cues. Part 4 is concerned with the process of explanation triggered by the evaluative needs. Part 5 deals with various external cues and how they are used to label the internal feeling state. There is a concluding discussion of the cognitive alteration of feeling states.
The authors deal with aggression, boredom, obesity, the control of pain, and delusional systems. This volume is of continuing importance to clinical and experimental psychologists as well as social psychologists. Each of the authors takes the theoretical concept of cognition and relates it to research in biofeedback, physiology, social psychology, altered states of consciousness, etc. Thus, the book bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the use of that theory in applied research.
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