Abstract Central and East Europeans have a great deal in common, both historically and
culturally, with West Europeans and North Americans, but tend to be more interdependent …

It has been proposed that social interdependence fosters holistic cognition, that is, a
tendency to attend to the broad perceptual and cognitive field, rather than to a focal object …

Research on culture and cognition suggests that East Asians are relatively holistic and North
Americans are relatively analytic. Social orientation and philosophical traditions have been …

Abstract Representatives of Asian and Western countries often differ in terms of both their
social orientation (eg, collectivism vs. individualism) and their thinking style (holistic vs …

East Asians have been found to reason in relatively holistic fashion and Americans in
relatively analytic fashion. It has been proposed that these cognitive differences are the …

A large body of research documents cognitive differences between Westerners and East
Asians. Westerners tend to be more analytic and East Asians tend to be more holistic. These …

We define analytic/holistic thinking as two modes of thought that reflect cultural variations in
perceptual and cognitive processes. Analytic thinking is characterized by a tendency to …

We show that differences in social orientation and in cognition that exist between cultures
and social classes do not necessarily have counterparts in individual differences within …

Previous research on cross-cultural differences in visual attention has been inconclusive.
Some studies have suggested the existence of systematic differences in global and local …

We examined theories of cross-cultural differences in cognitive style on a sample of 242
participants representing five cultural groups (Czechia, Ghana, eastern and western Turkey …