Question

The authors of your text present a study by Masuda and his colleagues (2008) that examined cultural differences in social perception. They compared how participants perceived a central character when the surrounding characters in a picture either matched or mismatched the central character's facial expression. What implications does this study have for the idea of analytic and holistic thinking styles?

Answer 1

It implies that holistic thinking leads the people to more carefully considers social context.

Explanation:

Holistic thinking's inquiry of the complex whole. In the case of business organization, a holistic thinking approach taking places of its purpose, values and functions design construct, system thinking and strategy formation. It is described by vernacular reasoning and involves understanding a system by sensing its large scale pattern and reacting to them. Holistic thinker believes that events are the products of external forces and cues and situations. They bear to give wide attention to context, relationship and background elements in background elements in visual scenes