Rebalancing psychology in China

Psychology in China is rapidly integrating neuroscience, data science, artificial intelligence, and engineering. While psychology-trained scholars remain the majority of faculty, there is an increase in the proportion of academics with a background in computational and natural sciences. This creates a tension: does the interdisciplinary direction imply the erosion of psychology’s disciplinary foundations, or can the field sustain its identity while expanding its conceptual and methodological boundaries? Does the interdisciplinary direction imply the erosion of psychology’s disciplinary foundations, or can the field sustain its identity while expanding its conceptual and methodological boundaries?