- PII
- S0205-95920000617-5-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S20000617-5-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- Theoretical model disclosing the occurrence of different systems of thought due to different cultural practices and explaining essential distinctions between East Asians and Westerners is presented in the article. The authors find East Asians to be holistic. attending to the entire field and assigning causality to it. making relatively little use of categories and formal logic. and relying on "dialectical" reasoning. Westerners are more analytic. paying attention primarily to the object and the categories to which it belongs. They use rules. including formal logic. to understand object's behavior. Described types of cognitive processes are embedded in different naive metaphysical systems and tacit epistemologies which are typical for the representatives of the mentioned cultures. The hypotheses is put forward that the origin of these differences is traceable to markedly different social systems. Theoretical approach and evidence presented in the article call into question long-held assumptions about basic (and universal) cognitive processes and even about the appropriateness of the process-content distinction.
- Keywords
- thought, cognitive processes, metaphysical beliefs, cultural differences, analytic and holistic thought, socio-cognitive systems, cognitive process and cognitive content.
- Date of publication
- 03.01.2011
- Year of publication
- 2011
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 703
RAS Social ScienceПсихологический журнал Psikhologicheskii zhurnal
- ISSN (Print) 0205-9592
- ISSN (Online) 3034-588X
CULTURE AND SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT: COMPARISON OF HOLISTIC AND ANALYTIC COGNITION
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