===Necesidad de expandir las investigaciones culturales===
===Need for expanded cultural research===
According toSegún [[Richard Shweder]], thereha habido una falla en hasreplicar beenlos repeatedhallazgos failurede tolaboratorio replicatede Westernla psychologypsicología laboratoryoccidental findingsen inentornos non-Westernno settingsoccidentales.<ref name=":2" />
ThereforePor lo tanto, auno majorde goallos ofprincipales culturalobjetivos psychologyde isla topsicología havede manyla andcultura variedes culturesconseguir contributeque tonumerosas basicy psychologicalvariadas theoriesculturas incontribuyan ordera tolas correctteorías thesepsicológicas theoriesbásicas sopara thatcorregir theydichas becometeorías morede relevantforma total theque las mismas se tornen mas apropiadas para predictionspredecir, descriptionsdescribir, andy explanationsexplicar oftodos alllos humancomportamientos behaviorshumanos, notno justsolo Westernlos onescomportamientos de los seres humanos occidentales.<ref name="schweder84">{{cite book|editor=Shweder, R.A.|editor2=Levine, R.A.|lastauthoramp=y|year=1984|title=Culture theory: Essays on mind, self, and emotion|location=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> ThisEste goalobjetivo ises sharedcompartido bypor manynumerosos ofestudiosos the scholars whoque promotepromueven the [[indigenous psychology]] approach. InEn anun attemptintento tode showmostrar thelos interrelatedintereses interestsinterrelacionados ofde la psicología cultural andy indigenous psychologyautoctona, cultural psychologist Pradeep Chakkarath emphasizes that international mainstream psychology, as it has been exported to most regions of the world by the so-called West, is only one among many indigenous psychologies and therefore may not have enough intercultural expertise to claim, as it frequently does, that its theories have universal validity.<ref name="Chakkarath">{{cite book|author=Chakkarath, P.|year=2012|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396430.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195396430-e-5|chapter=The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology|editor=J. Valsiner|title=The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology|pages=71–95|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>
The acronym W.E.I.R.D. describes populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Thus far, W.E.I.R.D. populations have been vastly overrepresented in psychological research.<ref name="Arnett">{{cite journal|author=Arnett, J. J.|year=2008|url=http://facweb.northseattle.edu/kkuwada/Psyc%20200:Fall%202012/article16-1.pdf|title=The neglected 95%: Why American psychology needs to become less American|journal=American Psychologist|volume=63|issue=7|pages=602–614|pmid=18855491|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.63.7.602}}</ref><ref name="weirdest" /> Findings from psychology research utilizing primarily W.E.I.R.D. populations are often labeled as universal theories and are inaccurately applied to other cultures.<ref name=":most people are not weird">{{cite journal | last1 = Henrich | first1 = Joseph | year = 2010 | title = Most people are not WEIRD | url = http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jvt002/BrainMind/Readings/Henrich_2010.pdf | format = PDF | journal = Nature | volume = 466 | issue = 5| page = 29 | doi = 10.1038/466029a }}</ref>
