Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning

By Ara Norenzayan, Edward E. Smith, Beom Jun Kim, Richard E. Nisbett. Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “…are more likely than Americans to infer that behaviors are strongly controlled by the situation (Miyamoto & Kitayama 2002; Morris & Peng 1994; Norenzayan et al. 2002a; Van Boven et al. 1999), particularly when situational information is made salient (Choi & Nisbett 1998).8 Grossmann and…”
Biases in intuitive reasoning and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (2011, background): “(That East Asian people are, in fact, more inclined to think intuitively and also hold more paranormal beliefs than people in Western cultures has been empirically proven, see Irwin, 1993 ; Norenzayan, Smith, Jun Kim, & Nisbett, 2002 .”
Problem Finding and Contradiction: Examining the Relationship Between Naive Dialectical Thinking, Ethnicity, and Creativity (2009, background): “Also, East Asians, on average, are more likely to tolerate psychological contractions (Peng & Nisbett, 1999 , 2000 ), are less surprised by contradictory evidence (Choi & Nisbett, 2000 ), and follow rules in categorization less (Norenzanan et al, 2002 ).”
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? (2005, background): “For example, Asian-Americans quite consistently appear intermediate to those of Asians in Asia and Americans of European descent for a variety of psychological processes (e.g., Kitayama, Markus, Matsumoto, & Norasakkunkit, 1997; Norenzayan et al., 2002), and, if anything, they tend to be much closer”
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Exploring cultural differences in critical thinking: Is it about my thinking style or the language I speak? (2010, background): “A preference for dialectical thinking may prompt Asians students to seek a “middle-way” between apparent contradictions more than their Western counterparts (Peng & Nisbett, 1999, 2000) and to choose intuitive reasoning over formal reasoning (Norenzayan et al., 2002), which then may explain the note”
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