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Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.
- R. Nisbett, K. Peng, I. Choi, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological review
- 1 April 2001
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"… Expand
Culture and Cognition
- R. Nisbett, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology
- 15 July 2002
We review evidence for the mutual interdependence of cultural and cognitive processes. Some cognitive content, assumed by many psychologists to be infinitely variable, appears to be universal,… Expand
God Is Watching You
- A. Shariff, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 September 2007
We present two studies aimed at resolving experimentally whether religion increases prosocial behavior in the anonymous dictator game. Subjects allocated more money to anonymous strangers when God… Expand
The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality
- A. Norenzayan, A. Shariff
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science
- 3 October 2008
We examine empirical evidence for religious prosociality, the hypothesis that religions facilitate costly behaviors that benefit other people. Although sociological surveys reveal an association… Expand
Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality.
- I. Choi, R. Nisbett, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology
- 1999
Growing cross-cultural evidence suggests that East Asians are less likely to show the correspondence bias, or a preference for explanations of behavior in terms of traits, dispositions, or other… Expand
Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
- Will M Gervais, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science
- 27 April 2012
Overthinking Religion? Many theories of human cognition make a distinction between System I, which tends to be rapid and to rely on heuristics or rules of thumb, and System II, which tends to be more… Expand
Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning
- A. Norenzayan, E. Smith, B. Kim, R. Nisbett
- Psychology, Computer Science
- Cogn. Sci.
- 1 September 2002
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Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion
- S. Atran, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology, Medicine
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 December 2004
Religion is not an evolutionary adaptation per se, but a recurring cultural by-product of the complex evolutionary landscape that sets cognitive, emotional, and material conditions for ordinary human… Expand
The Pace of Life in 31 Countries
- R. Levine, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology
- 1 March 1999
This study compared the pace of life in large cities from 31 countries around the world. Three indicators of pace of life were observed: average walking speed in downtown locations, the speed with… Expand
Running Head: CULTURE AND THOUGHT Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition
- R. Nisbett, K. Peng, I. Choi, A. Norenzayan
- Psychology
- 2001
We propose a theory of how systems of thought arise on the basis of differing cultural practices and argue that the theory accounts for substantial differences in East Asian and Western thought… Expand
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