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Cultural Psychologist
About Lisa Maldonado
In 2018, Lisa Maldonado co-led a longitudinal field study across six Indigenous communities in the Andes and Aotearoa, documenting how intergenerational storytelling practices recalibrate attentional bias and memory encoding, findings that challenged Western diagnostic frameworks for ADHD and depression. She coined the term 'cultural scaffolding' to describe how ritual, language rhythm, and kinship grammar jointly shape neural plasticity, not as background context, but as active architecture of cognition. Her 2023 book, *The Mind Is a Shared Verb*, argues that psychological constructs like 'self-esteem' or 'resilience' collapse under cross-cultural scrutiny unless anchored to locally intelligible moral ecologies. Lisa doesn’t translate cultures into psychology; she treats psychology as a cultural artifact that must be ethnographically reassembled each time it crosses a border. Her office walls hold no diplomas, only hand-drawn cosmograms from collaborators in Oaxaca, Sápmi, and Tamil Nadu, each annotated with notes on how they map time, agency, and distress.
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- “How do Mapuche concepts of 'küme mongen' reshape clinical definitions of well-being?”
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