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1 A Historical Account of Research in Filipino Psychology: Milestones, Methods, and Ethical Issues CARIECE V.

ANTONIO Psychology 101 MMT Professor Melinda Tan What is Sikolohiyang Pilipino? In her essay, “Kailangan ba ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino ng Sarili Nitong Kasaysayan?”, Rogelia E. Pe (1978) writes about how in the Philippines, and in other Third World countries alike, the dominating idea was that Western psychological concepts were universal.

Before the rise of Sikolohiyang Pilipino (SP), the dominance of the West was evident in the economic, political, and academic aspects of society. Filipino psychologists travelled West to study modern psychology and would come back to the Philippines to disseminate their learnings about this “universal” psychology.

However, not many realized that psychology was a field that was reliant on the culture and the local traditions of a given setting (G