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What kind of psychology for all?
In response to our special issue Gustav Jahoda sets out a different historical analysis of cross-cultural psychology and finds the concepts of ‘indigenous psychology’ and ‘universal psychology’ hard to pin down.
18 April 2005
IN their February special issue 'Bringing psychology to all societies', the three contributors (Ingrid Lunt, Kwang-Kuo Hwang and Carl Martin Allwood) dealt with some important though controversial topics. Sine the editors of the special issue expressed the hope that it would generate a debate, I venture to offer some comments.
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