中国社会心理学方法论初探

A Preliminary Study of the Methodology of Chinese Social Psychology

西方心理学是在对物质世界的科学认识中逐渐生成的,因此它在研究方法论上具有很强的实证主义倾向,并影响着人格心理学、社会心理学和文化心理学的发展。但本土心理学在实证主义的引导下所进行的本土研究,却往往误解和肢解当地人的心理和行为。其实,受中国自身的文化预设、社会认知和思维模式的影响,本土方法论是人文主义取向的,其中所包含的整体论思维、引导性概念及类比推理等对本土心理学方法论的建立具有启示作用。

Western psychology evolves from the scientific knowledge of the physical world, thus tends to be empirical in the study of psychology of personality, social psychology and culture psychology. The study of indigenous psychology under this tradition, however, often misunderstands the way in which local people think and behave. Being affected by its own culture, social cognition and thinking patterns, the traditional methodology is humanistic, and its holistic way of thinking, sensitizing concept and analogical reasoning would be helpful to the construction of methodology of indigenous psychology.