Download the Learning Helper below and use the articles linked below to facilitate your understanding of the ways in which culture can affect our cognition:

Sociocultural_Effects_on_Cognition

University of Michigan research on the perceptual differences of Americans and Japanese: 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/080800hth-behavior-culture.html

Research on how language can affect cognition: 

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-language-affects-color-perception.html

Research on how Language affects cognition, but in a contextual sense..great comparison to Nesbitt studies: 

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/4/518

Laymen’s Explanation (abstract above):

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world-10212854.html

Thinking in a foreign Language helps economic decision making!!

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/04/25/thinking-foreign-language-helps-economic-decision-making

Cross Cultural Analysis of Happiness!! YAY!

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