227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why
He was a john simon gugenheim fellow and received the distinguished scientific contribution award from the american psychological association. Most of his work has focused on social psychology and cognitive psychology. He shows pretty definitively that the genetic explanation for group differences in i c is wrong, wrong and wrong. And he makes a really good case for how we know that. It's its environment, particularly these either enriched environments or impoverished environments, of early childhood,. What a huge difference those make. We talk about what it takes to make a notse: How d e explained, ah, that ated, intelligent, cultured people like germans become nonses o.
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