Decolonial approaches consider modernity in terms of its inherent “dark side”, coloniality:
ways of thinking, feeling, and being associated with European global domination. We apply
a decolonial approach to illuminate the coloniality inherent in the independent selfways that
constitute standards of hegemonic psychological science. On one hand, these modern ways
of being are the product of colonial violence that enabled their characteristic sense of
abstraction from context. On the other hand, the promotion or growth orientation associated …