Indigenous and Cultural Psychology Understanding People in Context

It was once assumed that the bedrock concepts of psychology held true for all the world’s peoples. More recently, post-modern approaches to research have expanded on these Western models, building a psychology that takes into account the sociopolitical, historical, religious, ecological, and other i...

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Other Authors: Kim, Uichol (Editor), Yang, Kuo-Shu (Editor), Hwang, Kwang-Kuo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:International and Cultural Psychology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical and Methodological Issues
  • Contributions to Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
  • The Scientific Foundation of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
  • The Importance of Constructive Realism for the Indigenous Psychologies Approach
  • Constructive Realism and Confucian Relationalism
  • From Decolonizing Psychology to the Development of a Cross-Indigenous Perspective in Methodology
  • Family and Socialization
  • Parental Ethnotheories of Child Development
  • Close Interpersonal Relationships among Japanese
  • Affect and Early Moral Socialization: Some Insights and Contributions from Indigenous Psychological Studies in Taiwan
  • Cultures Are Like All Other Cultures, Like Some Other Cultures, Like No Other Culture
  • Cognitive Processes
  • The Mutual Relevance of Indigenous Psychology and Morality
  • Naïve Dialecticism and the Tao of Chinese Thought
  • Indian Perspectives on Cognition
  • Self and Personality
  • Indigenous Personality Research
  • An Historic-Psycho-Socio-Cultural Look at the Self in Mexico
  • The Chinese Conception of the Self
  • Naïve Psychology of Koreans’ Interpersonal Mind and Behavior in Close Relationships
  • Application
  • Humanism-Materialism
  • Chinese Conceptions of Justice and Reward Allocation
  • Family, Parent-Child Relationship, and Academic Achievement in Korea
  • Paternalism
  • Creating Indigenous Psychologies