N Chaudhary
Biographic Data
| ID | 42053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Chaudhary |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaudhary |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUDHARY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9584-3793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ethics as Epistemology: Rethinking Research on Children and Families through Care, Reflexivity, and Relational Practice
Peripheral Lives, Central Meanings: How the Global South Can Participate in Reimagining Psychology for the Future
Emerging from an invited lecture presentation at the APA conference in 2024, this article discusses how communities of the Global South can actively participate in the future of psychology theory, research, practice and publication. It is abundantly clear that psychology is a product of Euro-American academic practice, with the transportation of knowledge from this region to the rest of the world. Inevitably, there have been many concerns about t…
Transcending Time and Space in the Search for Synthesis: A Commentary on Paranjpe’s Understanding Yoga Psychology: Indigenous Knowledge with Global Relevance
Socio-cultural Images of Motherhood: Individual Variations of a Collective Construct
Challenges and Concerns in Assisting Indigenous People with Suicide Attempts
Introduction to the Tenetehar-Tembé psychology through the rites of construction of women leaders
The article discusses psychological practices and knowledge from the Tenetehar-Tembé (an Indigenous people who live on many riverside regions in the states of Pará and Maranhão, Brazil) tradition. Their rites and narratives carry processes of construction of women as leaders. We argue that, through the community processes of construction of the person, Tenetehar-Tembé women effectively become references for decision-making inside each community a…
Diachronicity in Aspirations and Personal Values of Adolescent Girls
Gestalt therapy, mundane phenomenology, and yoga philosophy: An integrated praxis in psychology
This inquiry proposes a theoretical-conceptual dialogue between Yoga and the philosophical bases of Gestalt therapy and mundane phenomenology. By expanding the gestaltic framework, we can better comprehend points of convergence and divergence between its theory and practice, vis-à-vis mundane phenomenology and Yoga philosophy. We posit that Yoga can offer to Gestalt therapy and phenomenology a broader perspective on contemplative somatic praxis. …
"Poor brain development" in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)-an applied field with the aim to improve the "brain structure and function" of future generations in the global South-has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize early childhood development. We challenge th…
Musings about Metaphors and Models: The Need to Put Psychology Together Again
How overstated scientific claims undermine ethical principles in parenting interventions
Introduction: While parenting interventions are flourishing in low/middle-income countries (LMICs), their ethical challenges have rarely been considered. We therefore applaud Weber and colleagues1 for their contribution to a recent debate about the ethics of parenting interventions.2 3 To apply the principles of beneficence, autonomy and justice to such interventions is certainly valuable, especially if ‘respect for autonomy’ includes considerati…
Social Conventions and Moral Obligations in Young Children’s Care: Illustrations from Rural Families of Northern India
The family in India is a vibrant, complex group that functions on the assumption of interdependence and complementarity of roles and relationships. Patriarchal and patrilocal joint families remain the ideal kin group for a large population of the subcontinent, but this can take many different forms related to co-residence, commensality, branches and subdivisions within the larger group. In the northern Indian rural households from which the illus…
It was peers and playgrounds that were missing, not play: Young children in Northern Indian homes during the pandemic
Play during early years gives rhythm to children’s lives, and although we make many investments in children’s play in our modern world, it is also true that children play under all conditions, even the most difficult ones. In recent times, social encounters and physical mobility have become impacted, and fear and uncertainty have become constant companions. In this article, we explore children’s play during the pandemic through a series of interv…
The Science and Ethics of Intervention Programmes in Family and Child Welfare: Towards Building an Inclusive Psychology for Social Justice
Can Globalization Help in Reimagining the Developmental Sciences? Finding Balance between Global Science and Local Reality
Social changes and technological advancement have profoundly impacted the human condition, and the former world order has gradually become obsolete as domination and imperialism are no longer justifiable. In the social and developmental sciences, such a shift implies the expansion of theory, methods, and application to embrace diversity as a fundamental property of being human. However, a bulk of the research draws from limited samples and circum…
Globalization, Culture, and Development: Concepts, Clarifications, and Concerns
Between the time this volume was conceptualized and its publication, the world has seen dramatic changes as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes that have directly impacted international relations and globalization. Because this issue of Human Development deals with insights and alternatives regarding globalization, culture, and development, the consequences of the pandemic are linked to the presentation of four specific articles based…
Human Development at the Intersection of Culture and Globalization: Towards a More Inclusive Future
There is a long history of studies of human development in different cultural groups, but studies of development that explicitly take globalization into account are more recent. Cultural practices change, but cultures have often been considered static. Studying developmental change in changing societies in dynamic global settings presents challenges for researchers. It also presents opportunities to clarify content and processes in research. For …
"Psychology in the "Backyards of the World: Experiences From India
The mind has been the subject of fascination since ancient times, and every cultural tradition has folk theories related to meaning-making, attributions, and explanations about being human. In this sense, the subject of Psychology is as old as humanity, although its rise as a global, scientific discipline is relatively recent, emerging from 20th-century Europe and America. Theoretical ideas and methods generated during the growth of the disciplin…
Bruner and Beyond: A Commentary
Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation
The dual systems model of adolescent risk‐taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still‐maturing self‐regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted in the United States or Western Europe. In the present study, these propositions are tested in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and th…
Cross-Cultural Psychology as a Solution to Global Inequality: Optimism, Overconfidence, or Naiveté?: A commentary on “The Positive Role of Culture: What Cross-Cultural Psychology Has to Offer to Devel…
This article presents an accurate assessment of international aid and its failure to reach declared objectives. The reason for this widespread miscarriage is attributed to the inability to understand cultural differences. People’s opposition, resistance, or apathy toward interventions are credited to social-psychological predispositions. To save the “saviors,” Brouwers suggests that welfare initiatives should collaborate with cultural sciences, m…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster "positive parenting practices" to improve children's chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard of good care. But attachment-based parentin…
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Cultural Models, Socialization Goals, and Parenting Ethnotheories: A Multicultural Analysis
This study conceptualizes a cultural model of parenting. It is argued that cultural models are expressed in the degree of familism, which informs socialization goals that are embodied in parenting ethnotheories. Three cultural models were differentiated a priori: independent, interdependent, and autonomous-related. Samples were recruited that were expected to represent these cultural models: German, Euro-American, and Greek middle-class women rep…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
"Poor brain development" in the global South? Challenging the science of early childhood interventions
Global Early Childhood Development (ECD)-an applied field with the aim to improve the "brain structure and function" of future generations in the global South-has moved to the center of international development. Global ECD rests heavily on evidence claims about widespread cognitive, social, and emotional deficits in the global South and the benefits of changing parenting practices in order to optimize early childhood development. We challenge th…
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster "positive parenting practices" to improve children's chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard of good care. But attachment-based parentin…
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Cognitive and social influences on early prosocial behavior in two sociocultural contexts
In this cross-cultural study, we tested 2 main hypotheses: first, that an early self-concept along with self-other differentiation is a universal precursor of prosocial behavior in 19-month-olds, and second, that the importance attached to relational socialization goals (SGs) concerning interpersonal responsiveness (obedience, prosocial behavior) is related to toddlers' prosocial behavior. Contrary to these predictions, the results show that mirr…
Continuity in Parenting Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
This prospective longitudinal study is aimed at contributing to the understanding of cultural diversity concerning maternal parenting behaviors and conversational styles on one hand and continuity in parenting strategies on the other hand. It could be demonstrated that German middle-class families from Berlin and Indian Hindu middle-class families from Delhi represent two different cultural environments embodying different parenting strategies. T…
Manifestations of Autonomy and Relatedness in Mothers' Accounts of Their Ethnotheories Regarding Child Care Across Five Cultural Communities
This study analyzes how autonomy and relatedness manifest in mothers' accounts of their ethnotheories regarding child care. Mothers came from two independent samples from urban middle-class in Germany and California, two autonomous-relational samples from urban middle-class in India and Cameroon, and one interdependent sample from rural Cameroon. Transcriptions of picture-based interviews are coded for discourse elements indicative of both orient…
"Psychology in the "Backyards of the World: Experiences From India
The mind has been the subject of fascination since ancient times, and every cultural tradition has folk theories related to meaning-making, attributions, and explanations about being human. In this sense, the subject of Psychology is as old as humanity, although its rise as a global, scientific discipline is relatively recent, emerging from 20th-century Europe and America. Theoretical ideas and methods generated during the growth of the disciplin…
Memories of Me: Comparisons from Osnabrueck (Germany) and Delhi (India) Students and Their Mothers
Dialogues of the Self
The investigation of selfhood and the various ramifications thereof have acquired a special 'position' in recent writings. Hermans' theory of the dialogical self has provided the discipline with a useful model to work with. Yet again, as psychologists from a 'non-Western' community, we find ourselves having to adjust in the process of 'acculturating' with the theoretical proposals and corresponding methods. The idea of a dialogically created and …
Musings about Metaphors and Models: The Need to Put Psychology Together Again
Bruner and Beyond: A Commentary
Cross-Cultural Psychology as a Solution to Global Inequality: Optimism, Overconfidence, or Naiveté?: A commentary on “The Positive Role of Culture: What Cross-Cultural Psychology Has to Offer to Devel…
This article presents an accurate assessment of international aid and its failure to reach declared objectives. The reason for this widespread miscarriage is attributed to the inability to understand cultural differences. People’s opposition, resistance, or apathy toward interventions are credited to social-psychological predispositions. To save the “saviors,” Brouwers suggests that welfare initiatives should collaborate with cultural sciences, m…
Mamta: The transformation of meaning in everyday usage
In every cultural setting, language provides an essential framework within which reality is configured. Cultural ideas acquire form and are sustained through language. The social fields created through chosen words and their connected meanings effectively function as key terms in defining cultural knowledge. Motherhood is an important role in Indian society. The eventuality of becoming a mother is of vital consequence, especially for Indian women…
Diversity, Definitions and Dilemmas: A Commentary on Helfrich’s Principle of Triarchic Resonance
Helfrich (1999) argues that understanding human psychic diversity requires a notion of culture that can attend to both cultural patterns and personal experience, to the fact of intra-cultural heterogeneity, and one that does not invoke old dualisms such as ‘us’ and ‘other’. It is argued that Helfrich’s triarchic model entails a view of culture as separated from tasks and individuals, which poses difficulty in explaining human experience. The mode…
An Ethnography of Love in a Tamil Family
If you visit Dr. Margaret Trawick’s home page at the University of Massey, New Zealand, there are two photographs on display. One is of Trawick herself. The other is a photograph of one of the primary respondents in her study on love in a Tamil family. The inscription below that photograph reads ‘In Memory of Pullavar S.R. Themozhiyar, 1938–1998’. Trawick lived with Themozhiyar’s family and used them as sources for her book Notes on Love in a Tam…
Speaking the Self into Becoming
The self is an alluring topic for debate, and Boesch's (2003) article creates ample space for playing with ideas and positions on personhood. I have chosen specific portions of the article to lead towards discussions of self and 'I', the notion of an inner self, multiplicity of the self, and the cultural configuration and language of selfhood. This commentary has been sprinkled with examples of self-related experiences from Indian communities in …
Diversity, Definitions and Dilemmas: A Commentary on Helfrich’s Principle of Triarchic Resonance
Helfrich (1999) argues that understanding human psychic diversity requires a notion of culture that can attend to both cultural patterns and personal experience, to the fact of intra-cultural heterogeneity, and one that does not invoke old dualisms such as ‘us’ and ‘other’. It is argued that Helfrich’s triarchic model entails a view of culture as separated from tasks and individuals, which poses difficulty in explaining human experience. The mode…
Dialogues of the Self
The investigation of selfhood and the various ramifications thereof have acquired a special 'position' in recent writings. Hermans' theory of the dialogical self has provided the discipline with a useful model to work with. Yet again, as psychologists from a 'non-Western' community, we find ourselves having to adjust in the process of 'acculturating' with the theoretical proposals and corresponding methods. The idea of a dialogically created and …
Speaking the Self into Becoming
The self is an alluring topic for debate, and Boesch's (2003) article creates ample space for playing with ideas and positions on personhood. I have chosen specific portions of the article to lead towards discussions of self and 'I', the notion of an inner self, multiplicity of the self, and the cultural configuration and language of selfhood. This commentary has been sprinkled with examples of self-related experiences from Indian communities in …
An Ethnography of Love in a Tamil Family
If you visit Dr. Margaret Trawick’s home page at the University of Massey, New Zealand, there are two photographs on display. One is of Trawick herself. The other is a photograph of one of the primary respondents in her study on love in a Tamil family. The inscription below that photograph reads ‘In Memory of Pullavar S.R. Themozhiyar, 1938–1998’. Trawick lived with Themozhiyar’s family and used them as sources for her book Notes on Love in a Tam…
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
Leung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tapping collectivism, hierarchy, and cons…
Physical Discipline and Children's Adjustment: Cultural Normativeness as a Moderator
Interviews were conducted with 336 mother–child dyads (children's ages ranged from 6 to 17 years; mothers' ages ranged from 20 to 59 years) in China, India, Italy, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand to examine whether normativeness of physical discipline moderates the link between mothers' use of physical discipline and children's adjustment. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that physical discipline was less strongly associated with adve…
Mothers and Others: Kamla's World and Beyond
Being a mother is a serious business in India, and much cultural activity is devoted to preparation for motherhood, a role that enjoys special status. This paper is based on the narrative of one Indian woman as she weaves her story of motherhood in response to interview questions. Kamla's responses bring out dramatic generalisations, serious presumptions and strong beliefs, all in the process of presenting her views. Kamla was selected for many r…
Mamta: The transformation of meaning in everyday usage
In every cultural setting, language provides an essential framework within which reality is configured. Cultural ideas acquire form and are sustained through language. The social fields created through chosen words and their connected meanings effectively function as key terms in defining cultural knowledge. Motherhood is an important role in Indian society. The eventuality of becoming a mother is of vital consequence, especially for Indian women…
Cultural Models, Socialization Goals, and Parenting Ethnotheories: A Multicultural Analysis
This study conceptualizes a cultural model of parenting. It is argued that cultural models are expressed in the degree of familism, which informs socialization goals that are embodied in parenting ethnotheories. Three cultural models were differentiated a priori: independent, interdependent, and autonomous-related. Samples were recruited that were expected to represent these cultural models: German, Euro-American, and Greek middle-class women rep…
Manifestations of Autonomy and Relatedness in Mothers' Accounts of Their Ethnotheories Regarding Child Care Across Five Cultural Communities
This study analyzes how autonomy and relatedness manifest in mothers' accounts of their ethnotheories regarding child care. Mothers came from two independent samples from urban middle-class in Germany and California, two autonomous-relational samples from urban middle-class in India and Cameroon, and one interdependent sample from rural Cameroon. Transcriptions of picture-based interviews are coded for discourse elements indicative of both orient…
How infants know minds
Culture in minds and societies: Foundations of cultural psychology
A scholar in search of an imaginary audience! An interview with Dr. S. Anandalakshmy
Elective interdependence: Understanding individual agency and interpersonal relationships in Indian families
Parents’ beliefs and ethnotheories about family life in general and childcare in particular contain explicit and implicit ideas about the manner in which children ought to be raised. Cultural scripts, family situations, and parents’ own beliefs and experiences have been known to guide parenting choices. Cultural practices in India have been deeply influenced by the textured history of external influence. In present times, increased mobility, chan…
Cognitive and social influences on early prosocial behavior in two sociocultural contexts
In this cross-cultural study, we tested 2 main hypotheses: first, that an early self-concept along with self-other differentiation is a universal precursor of prosocial behavior in 19-month-olds, and second, that the importance attached to relational socialization goals (SGs) concerning interpersonal responsiveness (obedience, prosocial behavior) is related to toddlers' prosocial behavior. Contrary to these predictions, the results show that mirr…
Continuity in Parenting Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
This prospective longitudinal study is aimed at contributing to the understanding of cultural diversity concerning maternal parenting behaviors and conversational styles on one hand and continuity in parenting strategies on the other hand. It could be demonstrated that German middle-class families from Berlin and Indian Hindu middle-class families from Delhi represent two different cultural environments embodying different parenting strategies. T…
Memories of Me: Comparisons from Osnabrueck (Germany) and Delhi (India) Students and Their Mothers
Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture
Making Sense of the Bindi: Urban Indians’ Appraisal of a Culturally Valued Symbol
Mental sociality and collective identity: A dialogical analysis of the Indian sense of self
This chapter discusses the specific strengths of Dialogical Self Theory for the exploration and explanation of the phenomenon of society of the mind as it is expressed in various intricate, culturally specific discourse strategies among Indians. By focusing on a recent social movement to demonstrate the particularity of cultural processes, personal and collective meanings are explored through interviews of several citizens during a protest. The e…
Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication
Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether these relations differ as a function of age and culture. To compare across cultures, we conduct 2 sets of…
Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation
The dual systems model of adolescent risk‐taking portrays the period as one characterized by a combination of heightened sensation seeking and still‐maturing self‐regulation, but most tests of this model have been conducted in the United States or Western Europe. In the present study, these propositions are tested in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and th…
Cross-Cultural Psychology as a Solution to Global Inequality: Optimism, Overconfidence, or Naiveté?: A commentary on “The Positive Role of Culture: What Cross-Cultural Psychology Has to Offer to Devel…
This article presents an accurate assessment of international aid and its failure to reach declared objectives. The reason for this widespread miscarriage is attributed to the inability to understand cultural differences. People’s opposition, resistance, or apathy toward interventions are credited to social-psychological predispositions. To save the “saviors,” Brouwers suggests that welfare initiatives should collaborate with cultural sciences, m…
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
Psychology (40 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Representations and Identity (15 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works)