Talk:Cross-cultural psychology

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[edit] At least a beginning

I requested an article on cross-cultural psychology this week, and as no one took up my request, I have decided to create one myself. Currently a stub, at least it is a beginning. ACEOREVIVED 19:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty of changing your opening as it seemed to me to muddy the central point, as I understand it. This is that it is NOT a branch of psychology but rather an opening of the concepts of psychology, developed predominantly within Western (English?) speaking cultures, to data from other "cultures", whatever you define that term to mean. It is the expansion of psychology through an examination of the impact of sampling and observation biases on research outcomes. See: http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_82.asp Makes sense to me. Am I splitting hairs?? I have also added some balancing information, regarding the flaws that seem to undermine cross-cultural studies in this field, and in my view, in general, and the same regarding Hofstede's work.

LookingGlass ~

[edit] Psychology from a non-Western perspective

So that this article does not come across as ethnocentric, it would be good to have various perspectives such as Asian psychology or the psychology of African-American blacks in this article. There are books in my university library on Asian psychology, and I may add to this article when I have more time. ACEOREVIVED 19:28, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fixing a wiki-link

I have corrected the Wiki-link to the Big Five. I initially called this "the five-factor model" and if you go that website, you will see that I have proposed this is re-named as "the five-factor model", but in the mean time, I make that wiki-link refer to another Wikipedia article. ACEOREVIVED 19:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can the stub link be removed now?

I see that this is still classified as a stub. Do people now consider it long enough to be dropped from this classification? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)