International, or global, psychology is an emerging branch of psychology that focuses on the worldwide enterprise of psychology in terms of communication and networking, cross-cultural comparison, scholarship, practice and pedagogy. The field is concerned with how psychology itself operates as a discipline across national and cultural boundaries, rather than with any single psychological process.
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Central QuestionHow the worldwide enterprise of psychology, its communication, networking, scholarship and practice, should be organized and compared across nations and cultures. 1 Key DebateWhether international, global, transnational and cross-cultural psychology name genuinely different enterprises or are used interchangeably despite purposes that are subtly and importantly different from one another. 1 Connections
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Studied under Wundt before founding Japan's first psychology laboratory, part of the field's early international spread.
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1. Wikipedia: International psychology
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International or global psychology is an emerging branch of psychology that focuses on the worldwide enterprise of psychology in terms of communication and networking, cross-cultural comparison, scholarship, practice, and pedagogy.
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Often, the terms international psychology, global psychology, transnational psychology, and cross-cultural psychology are used interchangeably, but their purposes are subtly and importantly different: Global means worldwide, international means across and between nations, transnational means to transcend the nation-state, cross-cultural means across cultures.
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