• DOI:10.1007/S12646-010-0002-9
• Corpus ID: 144061506

Stereotypes in social psychology: The “West-East“ differentiation as a reflection of western traditions of thought

@article{Chakkarath2010StereotypesIS,
  title={Stereotypes in social psychology: The “West-East“ differentiation as a reflection of western traditions of thought},
  author={Pradeep Chakkarath},
  journal={Psychological Studies},
  year={2010},
  volume={55},
  pages={18-25}
}

• Pradeep Chakkarath
• Published 25 March 2010
• Psychology
• Psychological Studies

Notwithstanding the fact that stereotypes and ethnocentrism constitute central topics of social psychology a cultural psychological question has almost been completely neglected in the discipline’s reflections on its own scientific endeavors: How has Western psychology’s construction of the “Indian“ and the “Eastern psyche“ been influenced by stereotypes that are embedded in culture-specific traditions of European scholarly and non-scholarly thinking? The problems tackled in this article are related to current social and cross-cultural psychological perspectives on the Indian context. In addition, they are related to social and cross-cultural psychological contributions to the well-established differentiation between the “West“ and the “East,“ which many psychologists have become used to and which are the foundation of current psychological theories about so-called “West-East differences.“