My qualms with evolutionary psychology as we discussed earlier Michael Gleason: What I’ve found from studying psychology in general is that evolutionary psychology in particular is rarely good science. Its hypotheses are rarely falsifiable, and it allows any researcher with sufficient creativity to invent a plausible-sounding explanation for just about any phenomenon in human behavior. Many studies from evolutionary psychologists merely show that a phenomenon exists, and then assume that that phenomenon has an evolutionary origin. In fact, most of our behavior is probably caused by an interplay of genetics, socialization, culture, and other factors that are too complex to distill... Miri Mogilevsky, author of the blog Brute Reason
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:57:26 +0000