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change their ways, colleges can learn tolisten to their sound <strong>of</strong> silence,” wroteHeejung Kim, a Stanford University culturalpsychologist, <strong>in</strong> a paper argu<strong>in</strong>gthat talk<strong>in</strong>g is not always a positive act.529/929How is it that Asians and Westernerscan look at the exact same classroom<strong>in</strong>teractions, and one group will label it“class participation” and the other“talk<strong>in</strong>g nonsense”? <strong>The</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Research<strong>in</strong> Personality has published ananswer to this question <strong>in</strong> the form <strong>of</strong> amap <strong>of</strong> the world drawn by researchpsychologist Robert McCrae. McCrae’smap looks like someth<strong>in</strong>g you’d see <strong>in</strong> ageography textbook, but it’s based, hesays, “not on ra<strong>in</strong>fall or populationdensity, but on personality trait levels,”

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