IUPsyS Invited Symposium, Poster Session, Oral Session, Keynote, State‐of‐the‐Art Session

From his analysis of American journals, Danziger (1990) concluded that psychology is an enterprise which continually (re)constructs rather than reveals its objects of enquiry. He looked at studies of North American investigators from an ‘individualistic civilisation’ (p.186) who reproduced a myth of individual behaviour being due to internal attributes of individuals. Our study looks at psychology journals in China - a civilisation based not on individuals in isolation but on deeply rooted social collectivities - to see whether the discipline has evolved in the same way as Western psychology upon which Chinese psychologists relied for their initial knowledge.