Friday 13 July 2007

Self-centered cultures narrow your viewpoint

Self-centered cultures narrow your viewpoint

An experiment requiring consideration of another person's perspective highlights a huge gap between US and Chinese people's intuition.

In a nutshell: 65% of US students didn't intuitively understand that another's perspective is different, compared to 5% of Chinese students. No surprise when you look at American culture and foreign policy, but still pretty shocking somehow. How can we help these people?
- Shen

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