Why: Though they each have their own tradition and history, Black, Feminist and Cultural Psychology have some similarities through their counterpoints of main stream psychology and cognitive science. Below is a small collection of works that in some way evaluate the question of human cognition outside of the most popular frameworks of experimental psychology and cognitive science. For example, many deal with intersectionality and its general absence from work on human cognition.
Figueroa, Megan. (In press). Decolonizing (psycho)linguistics means dropping the “language gap” rhetoric. In Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (Eds.) Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Adams, G., Dobles, I., Gómez, L. H., Kurtiş, T., & Molina, L. E. (2015). Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1), 213–238. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i1.564
Boykin, A. W. (1977). Experimental Psychology from a Black Perspective: Issues and Examples. Journal of Black Psychology, 3(2), 29–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/009579847700300209
Buchanan, N. T., & Wiklund, L. O. (2021). Intersectionality Research in Psychological Science: Resisting the Tendency to Disconnect, Dilute, and Depoliticize. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(1), 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00748-y
Causadias, J. M., Vitriol, J. A., & Atkin, A. L. (2018). The cultural (mis)attribution bias in developmental psychology in the United States. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 59, 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2018.01.003
Cokley, K., & Awad, G. H. (2013). In Defense of Quantitative Methods: Using the “Master’s Tools” to Promote Social Justice. Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 5(2), 26–41. https://doi.org/10.33043/JSACP.5.2.26-41
Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective. (2021). General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation. Review of General Psychology, 25(4), 339–353. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211048177
Duchesne, A., & Kaiser Trujillo, A. (2021). Reflections on Neurofeminism and Intersectionality Using Insights From Psychology. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 684412. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.684412
Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016a). Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research: I. Theoretical and Epistemological Issues. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(2), 155–170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684316629797
Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016b). Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research: II. Methods and Techniques. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(3), 319–336. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684316647953
Gutchess, A., & Rajaram, S. (2022). Consideration of culture in cognition: How we can enrich methodology and theory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02227-5
Hartmann, H., Darda, K. M., Meletaki, V., Ilchovska, Z., Corral-Frías, N. S., Hofer, G., Azevedo, F., & Sauvé, S. A. (2023). Incorporating feminist practices into (psychological) science—The why, the what and the how [Preprint]. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/2rcuz
Held, B. S. (2020). Epistemic violence in psychological science: Can knowledge of, from, and for the (othered) people solve the problem? Theory & Psychology, 30(3), 349–370. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319883943
Lett, E. (2022). Crossing lines does not equal intersectionality. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 45(6), 983–984. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-022-00375-6
McCormick-Huhn, K., Warner, L. R., Settles, I. H., & Shields, S. A. (2019). What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 43(4), 445–456. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319866430
Pitts-Taylor, V. (2019). Neurobiologically Poor? Brain Phenotypes, Inequality, and Biosocial Determinism. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 44(4), 660–685. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919841695
Santos, C. E., & Toomey, R. B. (2018). Integrating an Intersectionality Lens in Theory and Research in Developmental Science: Integrating an Intersectionality Lens in Theory and Research. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018(161), 7–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20245
Shansky, R. M. (2019). Are hormones a “female problem” for animal research? Science, 364(6443), 825–826. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7570
Syed, M., & Ajayi, A. A. (2018). Promises and Pitfalls in the Integration of Intersectionality with Development Science: Promises and Pitfalls in the Integration of Intersectionality. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018(161), 109–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20250
Webb, E. K., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., & Douglas, R. (2022). Radically reframing studies on neurobiology and socioeconomic circumstances: A call for social justice-oriented neuroscience. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 16, 958545. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.958545