Asian art that goes back centuries. ‘It isn’t just that Easterners versus Westerners think about the world differently,’ Nisbett told me. ‘They’re literally seeing a different world. We’ve found that if you show people pictures for three seconds, the Westerners will look all over its main object and only occasionally make eye movements that drift out to the context. For the Chinese, they’re looking constantly back and forth between the objects and the context.
