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心理学报 2011
Dialectical Thinking Reduces Aggressive Tendencies
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Abstract:
People process information in fundamentally different ways.When people think dialectically,they tend to be holistic,reconcile contradictions,and emphasize changes.There are marked differences in the cognitive processes between dialectical thinkers and analytical thinkers,including categorization,causal attribution,reliance on rules,use of logic,and preference for dialectical understanding of events (Nisbett & Masuda,2003).It is believed that the origin of these differences can be traced back to different so...