China needs its own psychology

"BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- As a large nation with 1.3 billion people, China urgently needs to develop a more localized psychology, said experts at the ongoing 28th International Congress of Psychology (ICP) here Wednesday.

Prof. Wang Dengfeng, a psychology scholar with Beijing University, told Xinhua that Chinese psychology should incorporatea whole set of theoretical knowledge of Chinese social status and cultural background. Current psychological practice in China, however, mostly borrows from western psychology, as foreign psychological books account for more than 90 percent of the domestic market, even dominating college textbooks. "

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