Culture, Class and Cognition: Evidence from Italy
Culture, Class and Cognition: Evidence from Italy
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DOI：
10.1163/156853707x208512
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
Nisbett, Richard E.
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作者：
Knight, Nicola;Nisbett, Richard E.
人们发现东亚人以相对整体的方式进行推理，而美国人则以相对分析的方式进行推理。有人提出，这些认知差异是鼓励亚洲人相互依赖和美国人独立的社会实践的结果。如果是这样，即使在地理上接近的地区也可能会发现认知差异。我们比较了相对相互依赖的意大利南部人和相对独立的意大利北部人在分类任务上的表现，发现前者比后者以更全面的方式进行推理。此外，正如有人认为工人阶级的社会实践鼓励相互依赖，而中产阶级的社会实践鼓励独立，我们预计工人阶级的参与者可能会比中产阶级的参与者以更全面的方式进行推理。这就是我们的发现——至少对于意大利南部来说是这样。
East Asians have been found to reason in relatively holistic fashion and Americans in relatively analytic fashion. It has been proposed that these cognitive differences are the result of social practices that encourage interdependence for Asians and independence for Americans. If so, cognitive differences might be found even across regions that are geographically close. We compared performance on a categorization task of relatively interdependent southern Italians and relatively independent northern Italians and found the former to reason in a more holistic fashion than the latter. Furthermore, as it has been argued that working class social practices encourage interdependence and middle class practices encourage independence, we anticipated that working class participants might reason in a more holistic fashion than middle class participants. This is what we found - at least for southern Italy.