ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Field Dependence, Change Blindness
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Culture and point of view (nisbett & masuda) Westerns attend to the object and categorize and analyze it with formal logic. Live in less constraining social worlds with focus on the individual. Asians attend to the broad field and focus on relationships. Living in complex social networks: chinese never formalized logic, while the greeks did, greeks focused on objects and to explain its behavior with reference to its properties. Analytic thinking; focus on the object, assessment of properties and assignment to a category: chinese saw that actions occur in a field of forces. Holistic thinking; focus on relationships between the objects and the field: chinese living in socially interdependent world. Many complex relationships; coordination of actions in order to maintain harmony: greeks were independent with less complex relationships. Emphasize on individualism and autonomy: east asia: person is connected to the context and environment high context , training for independence/interdependence starts in childhood.
