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Psychology should generalize from — not just to — Africa

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When psychologists attend to Africa, they usually test whether theories and concepts developed in North America and Europe generalize to Africa. Psychology would be enriched by focusing on Africa on its own terms.

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  1. Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Psychologie, Personnalité, Cognition, Changement Social, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

    Adeyemi Adetula & Hans IJzerman

  2. Department of Psychology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria

    Adeyemi Adetula

  3. Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Nairobi, Kenya

    Patrick S. Forscher

  4. Department of Psychology, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

    Dana Basnight-Brown

  5. Department of Psychology, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Soufian Azouaghe

  6. Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France

    Hans IJzerman

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Adetula, A., Forscher, P.S., Basnight-Brown, D. et al. Psychology should generalize from — not just to — Africa. Nat Rev Psychol 1, 370–371 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00070-y

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