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PhD Psychology Columbia University
Bachelors Psychology Duquesne University

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Eugene Nisbett 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 cognition, culture, social class, and aging. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where his advisor was Stanley Schachter, whose other students at that time included Lee Ross and Judith Rodin.

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Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. (1977) (10528)
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment. (1981) (5230)
Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition. (2001) (3523)
The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. (1972) (2866)
The geography of thought : how Asians and Westerners think differently--and why (2003) (2634)
Undermining children's intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis. (1973) (2342)
Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery (1987) (2294)
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology (1991) (1754)
The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments. (1977) (1670)
Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction. (1999) (1460)
Culture and Cognition (2002) (1435)
Attending holistically versus analytically: comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans. (2001) (1263)
The cultural matrix of social psychology (1998) (1066)
Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality. (1999) (975)
The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception (2005) (892)
Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: an "experimental ethnography". (1996) (861)
Culture and point of view (2003) (801)
Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception. (2005) (798)
Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012) (797)
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning (1983) (795)
The Geography of Thought (2003) (737)
Culture, control, and perception of relationships in the environment. (2000) (732)
Behavior as seen by the actor and as seen by the observer (1973) (594)
The effects of statistical training on thinking about everyday problems (1986) (572)
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgement (1981) (538)
The Differential Impact of Abstract vs. Concrete Information on Decisions (1977) (530)
Attribution and the psychology of prediction. (1975) (509)
The dilution effect: Nondiagnostic information weakens the implications of diagnostic information (1981) (506)
Pragmatic versus syntactic approaches to training deductive reasoning (1986) (487)
Is it culture or is it language? Examination of language effects in cross-cultural research on categorization. (2004) (481)
Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning (2002) (452)
Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South (2019) (451)
Culture and Change Blindness (2006) (444)
The Origin of Cultural Differences in Cognition (2010) (434)
Self-Protection and the Culture of Honor: Explaining Southern Violence (1994) (422)
Running Head: CULTURE AND THOUGHT Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition (2001) (395)
Validity problems comparing values across cultures and possible solutions. (1997) (389)
Culture, Change, and Prediction (2001) (364)
Situational Salience and Cultural Differences in the Correspondence Bias and Actor-Observer Bias (1998) (363)
Induction: Processes Of Inference (1989) (357)
Violence and U.S. regional culture. (1993) (350)
The Effects of Graduate Training on Reasoning: Formal Discipline and Thinking About Everyday-Life Events (1988) (345)
Cognitive manipulation of pain (1966) (339)
Hunger, obesity, and the ventromedial hypothalamus. (1972) (333)
Cultural differences are not always reducible to individual differences (2010) (330)
Culture and the Physical Environment (2006) (330)
Insomnia and the attribution process. (1970) (291)
Insensitivity to sample bias: Generalizing from atypical cases (1980) (291)
Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders (2008) (285)
Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions. (1992) (285)
Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning (1980) (266)
Teaching the Use of Cost-Benefit Reasoning in Everyday Life (1990) (263)
The Case for Rules in Reasoning (1992) (257)
Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Inference: Evidence from Behavioral Predictions and Lay Theories of Behavior (2002) (249)
Reasoning about social conflicts improves into old age (2010) (246)
Intelligence and how to get it: Why schools and cultures count. (2009) (242)
Culture and Aesthetic Preference: Comparing the Attention to Context of East Asians and Americans (2008) (238)
Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor: The Role of Institutions in Perpetuating Norms about Violence (1997) (234)
Cultural psychology of surprise: holistic theories and recognition of contradiction. (2000) (232)
Judgment under uncertainty: Popular induction: Information is not necessarily informative (1982) (231)
Taste, deprivation, and weight determinants of eating behavior. (1968) (230)
The accuracy of verbal reports about the effects of stimuli on evaluations and behavior (1978) (219)
A longitudinal study of the effects of undergraduate training on reasoning. (1990) (208)
Culture and Causal Cognition (2000) (200)
Teaching reasoning. (1987) (190)
Cultural styles, relational schemas, and prejudice against out-groups. (2000) (187)
Obesity, food deprivation, and supermarket shopping behavior. (1969) (187)
Rules for reasoning (1993) (187)
Who uses the cost-benefit rules of choice? implications for the normative status of microeconomic theory (1993) (187)
Determinants of Food Intake in Obesity (1968) (184)
Cultural variation in verbal versus spatial neuropsychological function across the life span. (2002) (176)
Conversing across cultures: East-West communication styles in work and nonwork contexts. (2003) (172)
Perceiving the causes of one's own behavior (1972) (169)
Cultural Differences in Allocation of Attention in Visual Information Processing (2009) (168)
Inductive reasoning: Competence or skill? (1983) (167)
Perception of social distributions. (1985) (167)
Verbal reports about causal influences on social judgments: Private access versus public theories. (1977) (152)
The psychometrics of everyday life (1986) (146)
Immediate and delayed transfer of training effects in statistical reasoning. (1991) (146)
Culture, category salience, and inductive reasoning (1997) (129)
Aging, culture, and cognition. (1999) (128)
A route to well-being: intelligence versus wise reasoning. (2013) (123)
Weight, sex, and the eating behavior of human newborns. (1970) (121)
On inferring one's beliefs from one's behavior. (1969) (114)
Anti-black prejudice as a function of exposure to the negative behavior of a single black person. (1996) (112)
Cognitive and Social Determinants of Food Intake (1974) (112)
Variability and confirmation (1982) (108)
A Theory of Conditioning: Inductive Learning within Rule-Based Default Hierarchies. (1989) (104)
Public Skepticism of Psychology Why Many People Perceive the Study of Human Behavior as Unscientific (2014) (101)
Rationality and Charity (1983) (98)
The Origin of Cultural Differences in Cognition: Evidence for the Social Orientation Hypothesis. (2010) (92)
Culture, Autobiographical Memory, and Behavioral Frequency Reports: Measurement Issues in Cross-Cultural Studies (2000) (92)
Culture, Class and Cognition: Evidence from Italy (2007) (89)
Intelligence and How to Get It (2009) (83)
Self-esteem and susceptibility to social influence. (1967) (81)
Aging and Wisdom (2012) (74)
Causal attribution across domains and cultures. (1995) (73)
Race, genetics, and IQ. (1998) (72)
Holism in a European cultural context: Differences in cognitive style between Central and East Europeans and Westerners (2008) (72)
Culture of honor (1996) (69)
Culture Changes How We Think About Thinking: From “Human Inference” to “Geography of Thought” (2017) (66)
Judgment under uncertainty: Improving inductive inference (1982) (65)
Categorical Organization in Free Recall across Culture and Age (2006) (60)
Dialectical responses to questions about dialectical thinking. (2000) (59)
Eastern and Western perceptions of causality for social behavior: Lay theories about personalities and situations. (1999) (58)
Culture and Diverging Views of Social Events (2005) (58)
Birth order and participation in dangerous sports. (1968) (55)
Eating behavior and obesity in men and animals. (1972) (52)
HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, AND RACE DIFFERENCES IN IQ A Commentary on Rushton and Jensen (2005) (2005) (50)
Obesity, Hunger, and Supermarket Shopping Behavior (1968) (47)
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking (2015) (46)
Beyond East and West: Cognitive Style in Latin America (2017) (45)
Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States (2019) (43)
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday reasoning (1983) (39)
Are there differences in fatalism between rural southerners and midwesterners (1998) (32)
Social Class Differences in Self, Attribution, and Attention: Socially Expansive Individualism of Middle-Class Americans (2009) (32)
A Distinctive Approach To Psychological Research : The Influence of Stanley Schachter (1987) (32)
Is There an "External" Cognitive Style? (1976) (31)
Swimming Upstream against the Fundamental Attribution Error: Subjects' Weak Generalizations from the Darley and Batson Study. (1982) (29)
Cultural Training Based on a Theory of Relational Ideology (2007) (28)
Group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin. (2012) (28)
Prediction and the partial understanding of the law of large numbers (1986) (27)
Evolutionary psychology, biology, and cultural evolution (1990) (26)
Eastern and Western ways of perceiving the world. (2007) (22)
How we see it : Culturally different eye movement patterns over visual scenes (2008) (22)
Pragmatic constraints on causal deduction (1993) (22)
Tools of the trade: Deductive schemas taught in psychology and philosophy (1993) (21)
Demographically diverse crowds are typically not much wiser than homogeneous crowds (2018) (21)
Validity problems of cross-cultural value comparison and possible solutions (1997) (20)
The Achievement Gap: Past, Present & Future (2011) (17)
Culture and personality revisited: Behavioral profiles and within-person stability in interdependent (vs. independent) social orientation and holistic (vs. analytic) cognitive style. (2019) (16)
Predicting Individual Evaluations from Group Evaluations and Vice Versa (1988) (16)
Think Big, Bigger ... and Smaller. (2010) (15)
Schooling Makes You Smarter: What Teachers Need to Know about IQ. (2013) (14)
A longitudinal study of the effects of undergraduate education on reasoning (1990) (14)
Taste responsiveness, weight loss, and the ponderostat. (1973) (13)
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology. (1992) (13)
The anti-creativity letters: Advice from a senior tempter to a junior tempter (1990) (12)
Age and sex differences in behaviors mediated by the ventromedial hypothalamus. (1975) (12)
Human Inference and Judgment: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? (1982) (10)
Who uses the normative rules of choice (1993) (10)
New Findings and Theoretical Developments (2012) (10)
"Intelligence: New findings and theoretical developments": Correction to Nisbett et al. (2012). (2012) (9)
Perspectives on Personality and Social Psychology: Books Waiting to Be Written (1992) (9)
A guide for reviewers: Editorial hardball in the '70s (1978) (8)
Lay personality theory: Its nature, origin, and utility. (1987) (8)
The Anticreativity Letters : Advice From a Senior Tempter to a Junior Tempter (2002) (8)
A psychological perspective: Cultural psychology--Past, present, and future. (2007) (8)
Thought and Feeling: Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States (2017) (7)
Ecoculture, social interdependence, and holistic cognition (2008) (7)
East-West Differences in Cognitive Style and Social Orientation: Are They Real? (2019) (7)
Culture and the Physical Environment Versus Analytic Perceptual Affordances (2006) (7)
Heuristics and Biases: The Use of Statistical Heuristics in Everyday Inductive Reasoning (2002) (7)
Predicting interpersonal attraction from small samples: A reanalysis of Newcomb's acquaintance study (1989) (5)
Decision Making: THE EFFECTS OF STATISTICAL TRAINING ON THINKING ABOUT EVERYDAY PROBLEMS (1988) (5)
Is There a Geography of Thought ? (2007) (4)
Reasoning: Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition (2008) (4)
Culture and systems of thought: Comparison of holistic and analytic cognition (2011) (4)
Lay arbitration of rules of inference (1981) (3)
Current Directions in Psychological Science (2009) (3)
Variability and Conﬁrmation (1993) (3)
Cognition and perception: East and West (2019) (2)
All Brains Are the Same Color (2009) (2)
The surprising underperformance of East Asians in US law and business schools: The liability of low assertiveness and the ameliorative potential of online classrooms (2022) (2)
Is She Really Going out with Him (1996) (2)
Deductive reasoning (1993) (2)
Violence and Honor in the Southern United States (2018) (1)
A Theory of Conditioning: Inductive Learning Within (1989) (1)
Thinking Differently About Difference (2012) (1)
American Psychologist Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments (2011) (1)
Detecting deception by loading working memory ∗ (2009) (1)
Perspectives on personality and social psychology (1992) (0)
Self-Reliance Scale (2017) (0)
Running head: CULTURE AND ATTRIBUTION Causal Attribution across Cultures: Variation and Universality (1998) (0)
Culture and personality revisited: Behavioral profiles and within-person stability in interdependent (vs. independent) social orientation and holistic (vs. analytic) cognitive style (2019) (0)
Protecting the self in decisions under risk (1992) (0)
Psychology; advanced test (1978) (0)
Media Union Dedication (1996) (0)
Preference for Receiving Advice and Frequency of Giving and Receiving Advice Scales (2017) (0)
Collective Expressions of the Culture of Honor: Violence, Social Policy, and the Law (2018) (0)
Tools for smarter thinking: Teaching students a few powerful reasoning concepts can equip them to make better decisions throughout their lives (2016) (0)
Homicide Rate Differences Between North and South (2018) (0)
The Bamboo Ceiling of Leadership Attainment in the United States (2020) (0)
Tools for Smarter Thinking. (2016) (0)
Stanley Schachter (1922-1997): Obituary. (2000) (0)
Psychology, statistics, and analytical epistemology (1983) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
The tribulations of the new lower class. (2012) (0)
1 RACE , GENETICS , AND IQ (2002) (0)
Differences Between Northerners and Southerners in Attitudes Toward Violence (2018) (0)
Attending to context and the relation between the object and the context (2005) (0)
How is Your Reasoning? How do You Know? (1992) (0)
Do Cross-Cultural Psychological Differences Vary with Social Class, Age, and Gender? A Japan-U.S. Comparison of Cognitive Style and Social Orientation. (2019) (0)
Thinking about suboptimal thought. (1993) (0)
Welcoming conservatives to the field. (2015) (0)
Culture of Honor: Manifestations, Explanations, and Destinations (2018) (0)
Insult, Anger, and Aggression: An “Experimental Ethnography” of the Culture of Honor (2018) (0)

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