John_Stone Report This Comment Date: August 24, 2005 12:10AM
SCIENCE NEWS
August 23, 2005
Americans and Chinese Differ in Their World View--Literally
A study of Chinese and American students has found that the two groups looked at
scenes in photographs in distinct ways. The findings indicate that previously
observed cultural differences in judgment and memory between East Asians and
North Americans derive from differences in what they actually see.
There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that whereas North Americans tend
to be more analytic when evaluating a scenario, fixating on the focal object,
East Asians are generally more holistic, giving more consideration to the
context. Researchers have not known, however, whether these differences
originate during the encoding, retrieval, or mental comparison stages of
perceptual-cognitive processing, or whether they might even be the result of
reporting bias.
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gruff Report This Comment Date: August 24, 2005 01:45AM
It's the slanty eyes that does it.
ninepointfiver Report This Comment Date: August 24, 2005 06:31AM
Yeah, yeah, whatever! "John", what is you're point?
Hey_Sous Report This Comment Date: August 24, 2005 08:21AM
I got a question, gruff....Why is it orientals have slanty eyes, but every dog
or fish they have, they genetically mutate it to have huge bulging eyes?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: August 31, 2005 12:48AM
Hey_sous, you're right but your mother still wears army boots...
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: August 31, 2005 12:56PM
Hell, I wore army boots, who gives a shit if my mom likes 'em!
