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Cultural issues in psychology

Ethnocentrism

Some critics of psychology argue that it is ‘culture blind’, ignoring the influence of the society and culture in which we live. In this issue, Andrew Stevenson considers whether psychology is an ethnocentric science.

Ethnocentrism: seeing other cultural groups solely from the point of view of one’s own culture.

Psychology students traditionally begin their studies by asking ‘What is psychology?’ But what about a second question: ‘Where is psychology?’ If our discipline professes to be the study of all human behaviour and experience — wherever it may occur — its students really ought to be curious about where in the world the majority of its research actually takes place.

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