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African/black psychology  

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  • African/Black psychology is a system of knowledge grounded in the perspectives of African-descent persons and designed to describe their personalities, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. This system of knowledge is based on an African cosmology and corresponds to African conceptions of the social universe. [Source: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology; African/Black Psychology]

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