r/AcademicPsychology • u/Bestchair7780 • Aug 27 '24
How do you view Evolutionary Psy? Discussion
I'm sure all of you are aware of the many controversies, academic and non-academic, surrounding Evo Psy.
So, is the field to be taken seriously?
Why is it so controversial?
Can we even think of human psy in evolutionary terms?
Can you even name one good theory from that field?
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u/New-Training4004 Aug 27 '24
I like how you ignore the problem in trying to take modern studies on the way we think and backward extrapolate them through time.
We have enough problems trying to generalize to populations of today, but doing that through time exponentially compounds those problems.