Indigenous psychology is an emerging new field in psychology, focusing on psychological universals in social, cultural, and ecological contexts. This book provides a starting point for psychologists who wish to understand various cultures from their own ecological, historial, philosophical, and religious perspectives.

Inhalt
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.