What American psychology needs most is the majority world: reply to Webster et al. (2021)

Authors

Amber Gayle Thalmayer, Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
Cecilia Toscanelli, Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Webster and team’s ( extension of our analysis to look at more journals over a longer time period suggests a slightly quicker trend away from Americanness in psychological journals than we found. However, they make a purely binary distinction between American and not American and do not address whether the change they document includes the most relevant increase in representation: that from the majority world. Overall we concur that the pace of change is slow and that our science would be benefited by increased attention to internationalization.

Publication Title

American Psychologist

Publication Date

2021

Volume

76

Issue

5

First Page

806

Last Page

806

ISSN

0003-066X

DOI

10.1037/amp0000795

Keywords

cultural psychology, international, majority world, philosophy of science

Repository Citation

Thalmayer, Amber Gayle; Toscanelli, Cecilia; and Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen, "What American psychology needs most is the majority world: reply to Webster et al. (2021)" (2021). Psychology. 686.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_psychology/686