ABSTRACT
In order to describe some research methods that we believe are appropriate for a global psychology, it is important to state what we believe global psychology to mean. Marsella (1998) refers to a global community psychology as “concerned with understanding, assessing, and addressing the individual and collective psychological consequences of global events and forces by encouraging and using multicultural, multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and multinational knowledge, methods, and interventions” (p. 1284). He sees global events as affecting most people throughout the world. How nations and people interpret and react to these events can vary considerably and therefore a global psychology should be attuned to diversity rather than a monolithic psychology providing universal principles for all cultures (see chap. 11, this volume, for a more complete description of global-community psychology).
