Indigenous culture, psychology, and values
作者单位：Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
会议名称：《第二十二届全国心理学学术会议》
会议日期：2019年
学科分类：04[教育学]
关 键 词：Western psychology universal provincial cultural difference psychological process
摘 要：Western psychology reflects western cultural assumptions, values, contradictions and hopes. Western psychology has assumed it is a universal psychology in its research when in reality it is provincial. It has contributed various pieces to the puzzle of what it means to be human but not all the pieces. It has given us a snapshot of what it means to be human at a particular time and place(20/21 st century, North America and Europe). And, psychological research has not been explicit about its vision for what it means to be a good human and how that varies across cultures. Over the past several decades, cultural psychology has emerged as a powerful force that undermines these assumptions of universality. We have discovered that there are significant differences between culture and communities with cultures in cognition(contextual vs abstract), emotions, pathology, the ideal self, theories of healing, and so on. And since culture seems to impact psychological processes and since human valuing employs various psychological processes, it follows that there may be differences between cultures and communities in the way they experience transcendence, transformation, and health.