Beyond indigenization and reconceptualization

Beyond insecurity: a reconceptualization of attachment disorders of infancy.

Some young children are not merely insecurely attached and at risk for later problems; by virtue of the severity of their attachment disturbances they are already disordered. This article reviews and critiques the approaches of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and the International Classification of Diseases (10t...

Indigenization and beyond: methodological relationalism in the study of personality across cultural traditions.

A brief intellectual history of the indigenization movement in Asia leads to the thesis that the generation of psychological knowledge is culture dependent. Indigenous psychologies go further and insist on viewing a target group from the natives' own standpoint. Psychological decentering underlies conceptions of human existence rooted in Asian intellectual traditions, in particular, relatedness...

Indigenization of Urban Mobility

Uncovering urban mobility patterns is crucial for further predicting and controlling spatially embedded events. In this article, we analyze millions of geographical check-ins crawled from a Chinese leading location-based social networking service, Jiepang.com, which contains demographical information and thus allows the group-specific studies. We found distinguishable mobility patterns of nativ...

The indigenization of English in North America

A Reconceptualization of Generalization and Generalization Problems

In this essay, I argue that issues of language generalization are best viewed as part of the broader issue of how individuals apply existing knowledge to situations that range from familiar to novel. The ability to flexibly apply existing knowledge is influenced by at least four factors: (a) the type of knowledge in question; (b) the level at which this knowledge is represented; (c) the similar...