Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology—Christopher 2014

Rising number of cross-cultural psychologists. Without a critical understanding of their own cultural footing, they risk imposing U.S.-centered psychology on communities where it doesn't fit, as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami reveals. Hermeneutic philosophers promote cultural awareness. Culture, in the hermeneutic approach, is a constellation of meanings. Folk psychologies and moral views influence every psychology, including U.S. psychology. Hermeneutics' insights, conceptual resources, and research methodologies enable culturally situated psychological knowledge and activity.

Christopher, J. C., Wendt, D. C., Marecek, J., & Goodman, D. M. (2014). Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology. The American psychologist, 69(7), 645–655. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036851