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Thinking: A Memoir

byRichard Nisbett

Social psychologist Richard Nisbett reflects on a career devoted to understanding reasoning, culture, attribution, and the limits of introspection. Blending memoir with intellectual history, he recounts influential experiments, collaborations, disputes, and the development of ideas about how people explain behavior and make judgments. Nisbett also considers differences between Western and East Asian patterns of thought and how psychological research changed over time. The book presents science as a social process shaped by curiosity, error, evidence, and colleagues, offering an insider's view of discoveries that helped establish modern cognitive and social psychology.

Publisher

Agora Books

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

219

ISBN

9780578854670