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Growing in Awareness :muscle::skin-tone-5: helps us to distinguish …
Growing in Awareness :muscle::skin-tone-5: helps us to distinguish what we see (our observations :eye:) from how we see it (our interpretations :thought_balloon:).
This article shares that the majority of questions/approaches in the field of psychology reflect a Western analytic framework rather than the dialectical/holistic thinking more commonly used in East Asian societies. The authors also suggest that both types of thinking have their own strengths and weaknesses and can complement each other nicely to more accurately understand situations and effectively problem solve.
Analytic Thinking: values discernible and stable rules; views contradiction as a problem to be solved; views "entities" as separate and independent agents;
Dialectical/Holistic Thinking: focuses more on context and relationships; assumes change; accepts contradiction;
The difference between Analytic Thinking and Dialectical/Holistic Thinking is yet another example of how the same (objective) OBSERVATION can be (subjectively) INTERPRETED differently. The recommendation the authors made to use both thinking styles as complementary frameworks illustrates the importance of looking at our interpretations with caution and ensuring that we have not made these interpretations based on stereotypes or implicit biases.
de Oliveira, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2017). Culture Changes How We Think About Thinking: From “Human Inference” to “Geography of Thought.” Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 12(5), 782–790. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617702718
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