Reconciling psychology’s past and present: Commentary on Chavez-Dueñas et al. (2025).

Chavez-Dueñas et al. (2025) provide an insightful critique of psychology's colonial legacy and call for an urgent decolonization of psychological ethics, theory, and practice. Although we agree with the ethical imperative to dismantle oppressive structures and practices within the discipline, the present commentary offers a complementary perspective that highlights the substantial progress psychology has made over the past several decades. We argue that many of the concerns raised by Chavez-Dueñ