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Kim, Yang and Hwang (2006) distinguish 10 characteristics of indigenous psychology. [6] It emphasizes examining psychological phenomena in ecological, historical and cultural context. Indigenous psychology needs to be developed for all cultural, native and ethnic groups. It advocates use of multiple methods.
Indian psychology refers to an emerging scholarly and scientific subfield of psychology.Psychologists working in this field are retrieving the psychological ideas embedded in indigenous Indian religious and spiritual traditions and philosophies, and expressing these ideas in psychological terms that permit further psychological research and application.
Sen Gupta was born into a Bengali Baidya Brahmin family in Faridpur, India, in 1889, to Turini Charan and Muktakeshi Sen Gupta. [1] He attended Bengal National College, an educational institution that was founded as a means of challenging British hegemony in India by putting education exclusively under national control (i.e., achieving self-reliance through education).
He obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Gorakhpur University.He started his career as lecturer in psychology at Lecturer, Gorakhpur University in 1970. Thereafter he remained Reader at Allahabad University (1979-1983), Professor, Bhopal University (1983-1993), before joining as Professor, Delhi University in 1993, where he served for the rest of his career.
A colonial mentality is an internalized ethnic, linguistic, or cultural inferiority complex imposed on peoples as a result of colonization, i.e. being invaded and conquered by another nation state and then being gaslit, often through the educational system, into linguistic imperialism and cultural assimilation [1] through an instilled belief that the language and culture of the colonizer are ...
Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology.Even though both fields influence each other, cultural psychology is distinct from cross-cultural psychology in that cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes. [12]
In 2002, Psychological Studies was one of four Indian psychology journals (out of 44 total) described as having international standards. [10]: 101 Beginning in 2004, the journal began to be published quarterly. [6] Starting in 2009, Psychological Studies is published by Springer India. [11]
Currently, Western psychology is undertaking an effort to analyze and incorporate indigenous psychologies of Latin America, South Africa, and India-Asia. Since these areas have a long history of political and social instability, their contributions to the history of psychology have been ignored, marginalized, or misinterpreted from a Western ...