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Jun 9, 2001 · Professor Richard Nisbett has research interests in judgment and reasoning, causal attribution, inference, personality theory, evolutionary theory, diversity and multiculturalism, and cultural differences in attitudes, behavior, and basic cognitive processes. Over 20,000 psychology links on a wide variety topics. Definitely worth a visit!
In the tradition of The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, world-class social psychologist Richard E. Nisbett takes on the idea of intelligence as something that is biologically determined and impervious to culture--with vast implications for the role of education as it relates to social and economic development.
Intelligence and How to Get It is sure to take its place on the shelves as the authoritative anti— Bell Curve. Nisbett makes a strong case for the need to revamp our entire approach to education, arguing that malleable, controllable factors like schools and social environment, and not hardwired genetic codes, hold the keys to the future of ...
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Aug 18, 2015 · Richard E. Nisbett. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug 18, 2015 - Psychology - 338 pages. An accessible guide to essential tools of reasoning that can help you make better decisions in your daily life. Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world.
After analyzing decades of intelligence research, Nisbett maintains that past studies give too much credit to heritability's role in intelligence. Culture, social class and education, he argues, matter more, and explain racial gaps in IQ. With that in mind, Nisbett says, U.S. schools and society should be far more focused on finding ways to ...
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Doctoral advisor. Stanley Schachter. Richard Eugene Nisbett (born June 1, 1941) [1] is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Nisbett's research interests are in social ...
