PSYCO341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eurocentrism, Russian Blue, Ethnocentrism
30 Sep 2016
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Cross-cultural psychology is as old as psychology itself, older than experimental. Its often been preoccupied between west vs the rest, in a way that makes the west look superior. Psychologist were send to the other corners of the world to test if the other people were civilized like us. The easiest question was do they have souls and if so we needed to convert them, if not slaves for days. These days many cross-cultural psychologists try to be called cultural psychologists (thanks shewder). The questions what is cross cultural psychology is there is a comparative approach, for the sake of nding universal psychological measures. They insist there is one psychology or no psychology, however our fatal aw is taking what we see in our western laboratories and trying to make them t the universal narrative. Cross cultural also strives to expand psychology to include other cultures.
