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Western psychology remains a young field encumbered by a long history of being a tool of oppression against Indigenous persons. At the same time, Indigenous cultural health beliefs have influenced western psychology, though not often recognized, and Indigenous persons often rely on aspects of western psychology for care. Hence, this chapter will briefly discuss western psychology while drawing from a decolonial and indigenist lens to support social transformation in practice, research, and education. To do so, western psychology’s foundation in racism and eugenics, as well as the appropriation of Indigenous psychology will be introduced. The chapter will culminate by highlighting Indigenous psychology and the thrivance of Indigenous peoples today, which includes revitalizing and reinventing Indigenous healing methods.

Feelings of belonging are integral in people's choice of what career to pursue. Women and men are disproportionately represented across careers, starting with academic training. The present research focuses on two fields that are similar in their history and subject matter but feature inverse gender gaps—psychology (more women than men) and philosophy (more men than women)—to investigate how theorized explanations for academic gender gaps contribute to feelings of belonging. Specifically, we simultaneously model the relative contribution of theoretically relevant individual differences (empathizing, systematizing, and intellectual combativeness) as well as life goals (prioritization of family, money, and status) to feelings of belonging and majoring in psychology or philosophy. We find that men report higher intellectual combativeness than women, and intellectual combativeness predicts feelings of belonging and majoring in philosophy over psychology. Although systematizing and empathizing are predictive of belonging and, in turn, majoring in psychology and philosophy, respectively, when other factors are taken into account, women and men do not differ in empathizing and systematizing. Women, more than men, report prioritizing having a family, wealth, and status in choosing a career, and these directly or indirectly feed into feelings of belonging and majoring in psychology, in contrast to prior theory. Together, these findings suggest that students’ perceptions of their own combativeness and the extent to which they desire money and status play essential roles in women's feeling they belong in psychology and men's feeling they belong in philosophy.

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