Contributions to Psychohistory: XX. Ethnocentricity in the Recent History-Of-Psychology Literature

Abstract

Literature in the history of psychology that had been published from 1975 through 1986 was identified in Psychological Abstracts (1975–1988). From each of the 1478 publications information was obtained on the historical setting of the narrative and the geographical location of the (first) author. Austria, Germany, and the United States were the most often chosen settings, and these three accounted for 43% of the settings chosen. Scholars in Mexico, Japan, and the USSR were the most likely to choose their own country as the historical setting (i.e., “ethnocentric”), and those in Canada were the least ethnocentric.