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Human Assessment and Cultural Factors (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
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Human Assessment and Cultural Factors (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Series: III Human Factors, 21
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Against the background of NATO's Istanbul conference of 1971
(Cronbach and Drenth, 1972), the Kingston conference shows that
great progress has been made by the community of cross-cultural
psychologists. The progress is as much in the psychology of the
investigators as in the investigations being reported. In 1971 the
investigators were mostly strangers to each other. Behind their
reports lay radically different field experiences, disparate
research traditions, and mutually contradictory social ideals.
Istanbul was not a Tower of Babel, but participants did speak past
each other. Now a community exists, thanks to the meetings of NATO
and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, to
flourishing journals, and the Triandis et a1. (1980) Handbook. The
members tend to know each other, can anticipate how their formu
lations will fallon the ears of others, and accept superficially
divergent approaches as making up a collective enterprise. Ten
years ago there was open conflict between those who con fronted
exotic peoples with traditional tests and applied tradi tional
interpretations to the responses, and the relativists who insisted
that tasks, test taking, and interpretation cannot be
"standardized" in the ways that matter. Today's investigators are
conscious of the need to revalidate tasks carried into alien
settings; they often prefer to redesign the mode of presentation
and to attune the subject to test taking. They face the diffi
culties squarely and recognize that even the best means of coping
are only partially successful."
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