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Saturday, 27 October 2018

Is psychology dominated by Western perspectives?


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According to this article by a psychologist, many facets of the human psyche, from our concept of  motherhood to the delusions we may suffer, are affected by the culture in which we have been immersed. The article does a quick swoop over the discipline of psychology, illustrating with evidence how Western bias (and the preponderance of under-graduates as experimental subjects) may have skewed our conclusions. 

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