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Original Articles

Cultural Ethnocentrism and Imperialism in Citations of American and Scandinavian Psychological Research

Pages 262-268 | Published online: 27 Sep 2007
 

Abstract

The present study was conducted in order to document the extent to which ethnocentrism and imperialism exist in American and Scandinavian reports of psychological research. Journal citation analyses indicated that articles appearing in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology referenced numerous US. resources but also many resources from Europe and other parts of the world. In contrast, articles published in American journals cited a preponderance of U.S. sources and, for the most part, excluded reference to Scandinavian psychological research. The se findings were interpreted as indicating the existence of empirical ethnocentrism in U.S. journal citations, and media-based cultural imperialism in Scandinavian reports of psychological research.

L'étude actuelle a été faite pour documenter à quel point l'ethnocentrisme et l'impérialisme existent dans les rapports américains et scandinaves de recherche psychologique. Les analyses des citations de revues professionnelles indiquent que les articles qui paraissent dans The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology font reference aux nombreuses ressources americaines mais aussi à bien des res-sources europiennes et à d'autres pays du monde. Par contraste, les articles publies dans les revues américaines ont cité une prépondérance de resources américaines, et, pour la plupart. n'ont pas fait référence aux recherches psychologiques scandinaves. Ces résultats de recherches semblent indiquer l'existence d'un ethnocentrisme empirique dans les citations des revues américaines et un certain impérialisme culturel, basé dans les média, dans les rapports scandinaves de recherches psychologiques.

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