The final thematic special issue in the series ‘The Social Psychology of Social Change: Science and Practice in Asia’ features 10 empirical studies that apply diverse social psychological theories and approaches to understand and to address a wide range of social concerns in Asian societies. The articles in the special issue align more to mainstream social psychological approaches to studying social phenomena, and as such are mainly derivative of Western social psychological paradigms, with the exception of a couple of studies that adopt emic indigenous approaches. Nevertheless, the various studies display a clear motivation to use social psychology to engage particular societal concerns, representing incremental progress towards using social psychology in the service of social change.

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亚洲社会参与的社会心理学：在不同方向上保持研究进展

“社会变革的社会心理学：亚洲的科学与实践”系列的最后一个专题主题是10项实证研究，这些研究运用了多种社会心理学理论和方法来理解和解决亚洲社会中广泛的社会问题。本期特刊中的文章与研究社会现象的主流社会心理学方法更加契合，因此，它们主要是西方社会心理学范式的衍生，但有一些采用特有的本土方法的研究除外。然而，各种研究显示出明显的动机来使用社会心理学来解决特定的社会问题，这代表了在为社会变革服务中使用社会心理学的进步。