In psychology, there is a growing recognition of how racialized groups are often dehumanized and pathologized, and how racist and colonial legacies still inform our research and practices today. In order to dismantle racism within academic institutions we must decolonize and indigenize psychological science. One promising strategy is the use of storytelling methodology wherein participants from racialized groups share their lived experiences. However, the process of how storytelling contributes to decolonization is rarely explained, and decolonization is rarely defined. The present paper systematically reviewed studies that examined racialized individuals’ lived experience using storytelling methodology in order to synthesize conceptualizations of decolonization and of how storytelling contributes to decolonizing psychological research. Findings suggest storytelling meaningfully contributes to decolonial praxis in psychology. Researchers must work consciously and collaboratively, center research around liberating racialized communities, and explicitly define how their study decolonizes in order to be accountable to their community of study and to the colonial history of the lands on which they're situated.

在心理学上，人们越来越认识到，种族化群体通常是如何被非人性化和病态化的，以及种族主义和殖民遗产如何仍然影响着我们今天的研究和实践。为了消除学术机构内的种族主义，我们必须非殖民化和本土化心理学。一种有前途的策略是讲故事的方法的使用，其中来自种族群体的参与者分享他们的生活经验。但是，很少讲述讲故事如何促进非殖民化的过程，也很少定义非殖民化的过程。本文系统地回顾了使用讲故事的方法检查种族化的个人生活经历的研究，以便综合非殖民化的概念化以及讲故事如何促进非殖民化的心理学研究。研究结果表明，讲故事对心理学中的殖民主义实践有重要意义。研究人员必须自觉地和合作地开展工作，将研究集中于解放种族隔离的社区，并明确定义他们的研究如何非殖民化，以便对他们的研究社区和所居住土地的殖民历史负责。