Do Easterners and Westerners Treat Contradiction Differently?

Peng and Nisbett (1999) put forward an influential theory of the influence of culture on the resolution of contradiction. They suggested that Easterners deal with contradiction in a dialectical manner, trying to reconcile opposite points of view and seeking a middle-way. Westerners, by contrast, wou...

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Authors: Mercier, Hugo 1980- (Author) ; Zhang, Jiehai (Author) ; Qu, Yuping (Author)
Contributors: Lu, Peng (Other) ; Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2015, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 45-63
Further subjects:B Culture reasoning contradiction dialecticism replication
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