TY - BOOK AU - NISBETT Richard E TI - The geography of thought: how Asians and Westerners think differently and why SN - 0743255356 (pbk) : PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Free Press KW - COGNITION AND CULTURE KW - THINKING N2 - There are distinct differences in Western and eastern thought process and perceptions. This book considers why this should be, tracing the development of ideas about cognition over three thousand years of human history. Argues that these differences are deeply rooted but that there are indications of some degree of convergence between the two at the present time ER -