Research Center for Cultural China, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2023 Jun;57(2):361-380. doi: 10.1007/s12124-022-09681-9. Epub 2022 Apr 1.
This paper, a reply to the thought-provoking paper The WEIRDest People in the World? (Henrich, Heine & Norenzayan, 2010), makes the fundamental argument that most research paradigms from Western mainstream psychology, including theories, methods, and research procedures, are all very WEIRD once moved to non-Western cultures. We thus face not only biased samples but also a deeply WEIRD psychology. Implanting such a research paradigm into non-Western societies may result in an episteme of self-colonization by formulating a mentality of normative Eurocentrism, which may hinder not only the understanding of a local culture. Through this paper I draw on Kuhn's (1962) Structure of Scientific Revolutions to argue that a crisis is needed to initiate a scientific revolution against WEIRD psychology. I then draw on Hwang's (2019a) epistemological strategy as a path for constructing culture-inclusive theories to compliment Western theories found in mainstream psychology.
这篇论文是对发人深省的论文《世界上最奇特的人？》（Henrich、Heine 和 Norenzayan，2010）的回应，其基本观点是，包括理论、方法和研究程序在内的大多数来自西方主流心理学的研究范式，一旦被应用到非西方文化中，都是非常奇特的。因此，我们不仅面临有偏差的样本，还有一种深深根植于奇特心理学的观念。将这种研究范式植入非西方社会，可能会导致一种自我殖民的知识体系，通过形成一种规范的欧洲中心主义心态，不仅会阻碍对当地文化的理解，还会阻碍对西方文化的理解。通过本文，我借鉴库恩（1962）的《科学革命的结构》来论证，需要一场危机来引发一场针对奇特心理学的科学革命。然后，我借鉴黄氏（2019a）的认识论策略作为构建包含文化的理论的途径，以补充主流心理学中的西方理论。
