Categories or Relationships? Cross-cultural Differences in Categorization

While there has been extensive research comparing the thinking styles of Chinese and European American students, there is relatively little looking at Indian students. The goal of this project was to determine if Indian students categorize objects based on taxonomic or thematic categorization. How we categorize is a reflection of how we organize our world. This research is the first that we know of that compares categorization styles between East Asian, European Canadian, and Indian participants.