The story of culture in psychology and the return journey to normology: Comments on the global relevance of Asian indigenous psychologies Authors

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	The story of culture in psychology and the return journey to normology: Comments on the global relevance of Asian indigenous psychologies Authors
	Chiu Chiyue; Shi Yuanyuan; Kwan Y.-Y. Letty
	2019-01
Source Publication	Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context
Publisher	Palgrave
Abstract	n this chapter, we use the story of culture in psychological research and a return journey from personology to normology to comment on the global relevance of Asian indigenous psychology (IP). The return journey reveals the inconvenient truth that all theories have their cultural blind spots. Even cultural theories that seek to explain collective phenomena also embody a personological bias. Thus, Asian indigenous theories can have important epistemic functions. These theories may confront the researcher with alternative viewpoints that are grounded in different cultural logics. These alternative viewpoints may destabilize the researcher’s knowledge structure, evoke cognitive dissonance and motivate theoretical innovations. The story of culture in psychology highlights the conditions that must be met for the potential contributions of Asian IPs to be actualized. Three necessary conditions are: (1) a shift in the …
Document Type	Book chapter
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Faculty of Social Sciences
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Chiu Chiyue,Shi Yuanyuan,Kwan Y.-Y. Letty. The story of culture in psychology and the return journey to normology: Comments on the global relevance of Asian indigenous psychologies Authors[M]. Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context:Palgrave, 2019.
APA	Chiu Chiyue., Shi Yuanyuan., & Kwan Y.-Y. Letty (2019). The story of culture in psychology and the return journey to normology: Comments on the global relevance of Asian indigenous psychologies Authors. Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context.

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