Native Hawaiians and Psychology
American Indians and Alaska Natives in Psychology
Science, Ethnicity and Bias
WEIRDest people in the world?
Surprise
100

This was the year that Captain James Cook arrived on the Hawaiian Islands.

What is 1778?

100

This person founded the Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP), was referred to as a "cultural broker," and worked on ways to refine network therapy as an alternative to hospitalization for schizophrenic patients.

Who was Carolyn Lewis Attneave?

100

Under this principle, one must question, doubt, or suspend judgement until sufficient information is available. 

What is the principle of skepticism? 

100

WEIRD

What is an abbreviation for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic? 

100

These are the host sites of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

What is Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo?

200
The Native Hawaiian concept of self is grounded in social relationships; individual, society, and nature are inseparable and key to psychological health. This is the term that refers to relational harmony or balance. 

What is lokahi?

200

This is the minimum American Indian blood quantum needed, in addition to registration/enrollment in one of the 500 or more federally recognized tribes, to be recognized as an Americana Indian according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). 

What is one fourth?

200

This basic guiding principle of science refers to the direct relationship between the use of rigorous scientific methodology and the likelihood of convincing or persuading a fair-minded, critically thinking person of the findings or conclusions. One gains confidence that findings are valid through rigorous scientific methodology and theoretical coherence.

What is the principle of convincingness?

200

1) Comparing people from modern industrialized societies with those from small-scale societies, 2) Contrasting people from Western societies with non-Western industrialized societies, 3) Contrasting Americans with other Western societies, 4) Contrasting university-educated Americans with non-university-educated Americans

What is the approach taken by Henrich and colleagues (2010) to show how WEIRD people compare with other samples? 

200

This is a program that has significantly contributed to the growth in numbers of American Indian and Native American students in psychology. 

What is the Indians into Psychology Doctoral Education (INPSYDE) program?

300

An example of this is how Native Hawaiians have often been categorized under the broader racial group of "Pacific Islander." This has resulted in the conspicuous absence of meaningful and accurate data on Native Hawaiians.

What is the "collapsing" of racial groups?

300

Turning personal experiences to compassion and work for others

What is a recurring hallmark of the Indian psychologists discussed in Trimble and Clearing-Sky's article?

300

The extent to which conclusions can be drawn about the causal effects of one variable on another

What is internal validity?

300

This is a supposedly "basic" process that shows substantial variation across populations.

What is visual perception? (other answers possible)

300

This is the period of time in the 1970s characterized by a reclaiming of Native Hawaiian culture, traditions, values, and practices. One significant event was the occupation of Kaho'lawe in 1976 by a group of nine people to protest the US Navy's bombing of the island.

What is the Hawaiian renaissance?

400

The establishment of this program provided an academic space where scholars from all over the Pacific could engage in the study and research of Native Hawaiian culture and the perpetuation of the Hawaiian language. The establishment of this program demonstrates a commitment toward indigenous scholarship.

What is the Hawaiian Studies Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa?

400

This is Duran and Duran's (1995) argument in their book, Native American Postcolonial Psychology

What is the argument that it is imperative to understand the underlying trauma and internalized oppression of American Indians to fully understand the issues that American Indians and Alaska Natives experience in today's world?

400

The extent to which one can generalize the results of the research to the populations and settings of interest

What is external validity?

400

This is the percentage of American samples composed solely of undergraduates in psychology courses in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Henrich et al., 2010). Bonus: This is the overall percentage of undergraduate samples.

What is 67%

Bonus: What is 80%

400

Fadeke-Olayemi

What is Felicia's middle name?

500

These are three specific approaches that have been applied to the study of Native Hawaiians in the postcolonial period.

What is the deficit approach, the cultural interaction approach and the indigenous approach?

500

This term describes the way in which American Indians and Native Americans control their destiny within and beyond psychology, surviving through failures of government policy through deep commitments to identity, traditions, customs and language. 

What is self-determination?

500

A vicious cycle that discourages the development of ethnic minority research, resulting in a widening gap between ethnic minority and mainstream research

What happens when demands for rigorous internal validity result in relatively few minority research projects and less funding, making it difficult to develop appropriate measures, designs, and research tools, and find training opportunities in ethnic minority research?

500

When built on limited populations, this is how theories and principles should be viewed before they are cross-validated. 

What are local theories?

500

This is a recommendation proposed by either Sue (1999) or Henrich et al. (2010) to improve the generalizability of research findings. 

Multiple answers valid (e.g. What are explicit requirements from journal editors and reviewers for authors to explicitly discuss and defend the generalizability of their findings? What are research links between departments/universities and diverse subject pools? What are a wide range of research methodologies, including qualitative and ethnographic strategies?)