Writer’s Choice
Paper details:
Write a ~500 word short response paper about the article you read. Your response can summarize the article and include a reflection about the content by
answering (some of) the questions below:
What are some main generalizations about how “Westerners” and “East Asians” think? What differences emerge between the two cultures?
What is “dialectal thinking”? How is it related to the role of context?
What is the fundamental attribution error, and why are Americans more likely to exhibit this?
How do both cultures think about change? What did you learn about stock purchasing behaviors in both cultures?
What did Lehman and Nisbett (1990) find out about whether people’s reasoning abilities could be changed in adulthood?
What general take-away messages did you learn from this article? Do you think it would benefit individuals to be able to have both analytical and dialectal
thinking strategies?
