Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
INTRODUCTION
How do we explore a territory for which there are no maps available? This difficulty, faced by Spanish and Portuguese conquerors attempting to explore and dominate Latin America during the 16th century, is similar to that faced by the author of this chapter in finding out what has been researched in the region on the topic of intelligence. Where does this difficulty lie? On one side, in the insufficient development of the discipline in the region, and on the other, closely related to the former, in the scarce development of means of scientific communication that could contribute to the dissemination of the work being carried out.
Latin America includes 25 countries and two associated states. It counts only three psychology journals indexed in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, Revista Mexicana de Psicología, Revista Interamericana de Psicología) and one non-indexed but recently included in PsycInfo (Revista Psykhe). Most of the countries in the region have begun to offer psychology as a major in their universities only within the last three decades (Toro & Villegas, 2001). Only Mexico, Brazil, and Chile have Ph.D. psychology programs that are competitive at an international level, all of them developed very recently. In other words, there is not a consolidated development of the discipline in the region, and there are not enough means of scientific dissemination.
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