Introduction: Adopted at Last!

摘要

The field of cognitive styles has been one of the orphans of modern psychological science. What, exactly, is a cog- nitive style? A cognitive style is a preferred way of han- dling a particular cognitive task (Sternberg, 1997; Witkin, 1950; Zhang & Sternberg, 2006, 2009). As such, the study of cognitive styles has been seen as falling between the fields of personality and cognition (Sternberg & Zhang, 2001; Zhang, Sternberg, & Rayner, 2012), but neither field has adopted cognitive styles as its own (Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2001). The closest any field has come to adopting cognitive styles is cultural psychology, (e.g., Berry, Poortinga, Segall, & Dasen, 1992; Nisbett, Choi, Peng, & Norenzayan, 2001), which itself has been some- what of an orphan in psychological science more generally.