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	Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned by Robert Kurzban
		If evolutionary psychology were guilty of the sins of which it was accused, the Roses and their contributors could be considered to have produced an important work, helping to prevent the spread of flimsy science and distasteful politics.
		Evolutionary psychologists not only reject genetic determinism, but have emphasized that they believe that it is actually nonsensical to try to talk about genes without discussing the environment in which the genes exist.
		Evolutionary psychologists are routinely accused of generating hypotheses that are both post-hoc and unfalsifiable.
	human-nature.com /nibbs/02/apd.html (5164 words)

	Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned by Robert Kurzban
		If evolutionary psychology were guilty of the sins of which it was accused, the Roses and their contributors could be considered to have produced an important work, helping to prevent the spread of flimsy science and distasteful politics.
		Evolutionary psychologists not only reject genetic determinism, but have emphasized that they believe that it is actually nonsensical to try to talk about genes without discussing the environment in which the genes exist.
		Evolutionary psychologists are routinely accused of generating hypotheses that are both post-hoc and unfalsifiable.
	www.human-nature.com /nibbs/02/apd.html (5164 words)

	Cultural psychology meets evolutionary psychology
		Evolutionary psychologists are organized in various programs to study, among other things, social psychological issues, issues of mating, sex and gender, and culture.
		One of the things evolutionary psychologist hardly do, however, is demonstrating the role of sub-symbolic processes in so called culturally informed behaviors, that is to say, in behaviors of a distinct pattern in which certain objects (tools) or means (signs etc.) are used in a characteristic ways.
		Evolutionary psychologists often are satisfied once they have pointed to the ingenious specialized circuitry of the brain.
	members.shaw.ca /ncpg/voestermans_baerveldt.html (4838 words)

	What is Evolutionary Psycholgy?
		Evolutionary psychology is the approach of explaining human behavior based on the combination of evolutionary biology, anthropology, cognitive science, and the neurosciences.
		Evolutionary psychology is not a specific sub field of psychology, such as the study of vision, reasoning, or social behavior.
		Evolutionary psychology is the science that seeks to explain through universal mechanisms of behavior why humans act the way they do (See, Assumptions About EP to Help Guide You).
	www.evoyage.com /Whatis.html (3846 words)

	Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain certain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as evolved adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural or sexual selection.
		Evolutionary psychology is grounded on the Massive Modularity hypothesis, which proposes that the human brain comprises many functional mechanisms, called psychological adaptations or evolved cognitive mechanisms designed by the process of natural selection.
		Evolutionary psychology argues that to understand an evolved psychological mechanism one must understand the properties of the environment in which the psychological mechanism evolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolutionary_psychology (3661 words)

	Evolutionary Psychology - Psychological Aspects of Human Evolution
		Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind.
		To understand evolutionary psychology, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of genes, inheritance, and the principles of natural selection (go to the 4 principles of natural selection).
		Whilst it has been long recognized that human morphology is a function of evolutionary selection, it is only more recently that human behavior and consciousness have come to be examined in light of their evolutionary adaptivity (Panksepp and Panksepp, 2000).
	www.wilderdom.com /personality/L7-1EvolutionaryPsychology.html (2536 words)

	Evolutionary Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Evolutionary psychology is the study of human cognitive structures and the resultant behaviors in the light of evolutionary theory.
		Evolutionary psychologists take an adaptationist stance toward psychology-- that is, they study psychological "adaptations, byproducts of adaptations, and malfunctions of adaptations" and the behaviors generated from them (Hagen).
		Evolutionary psychologists are, generally, more interested in human universals than human differences, and, as their principles suggest, support the idea that there is a fairly uniform human nature (Cosmides and Tooby, a; Hagen).
	www.crumpled.com /cp/personal/ep.html (3233 words)

	Synthetic Evolutionary Psychology
		Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the study of the mind based on principles drawn from evolutionary biology.
		In the crickets case, evolutionary psychologists would not only be interested in the neural structures that facilitate the phonotaxic behaviour, but also in the historical trajectory that has led to the emergence of the singing behaviour through natural (sexual) selection.
		Introducing evolutionary robots to the evolutionary and environmental forces that are hypothesised to have shaped the human mind, and subsequently analysing the resulting robot controllers for adaptations and the emergence of modules, provides data relevant to both kinds of hypotheses in evolutionary psychology.
	www.dylan.org.uk /syntheticEP14.htm (8203 words)

	Evolutionary Psychology: Entry
		The reason is that the term "evolutionary psychology" is increasingly being used to designate only work conducted within a specific set of theoretical and methodological commitments shared by a prominent and influential group of researchers (most notably the psychologists David M. Buss, Leda Cosmides, and Steven Pinker and the anthropologists Donald Symons and John Tooby).
		Evolutionary Psychologists offer a single argument in support of this theory, which is a general theoretical argument concerning the evolution of complex adaptations.
		Evolutionary Psychology's other argument, however, is more of an appeal to common sense, and it thereby garners more intuitive credibility for Evolutionary Psychology's claim that there is a universal human nature, since it makes the denial of that claim seem quite literally incredible.
	host.uniroma3.it /progetti/kant/field/ep.htm (8033 words)

	The KLI Theory Lab - Evolutionary Epistemology
		If we are to take the variety of ways in which the evolutionary perspective has infused and been used in biology as a model, the directions in which EE has gone so far have exploited but a tiny fraction of the resources available to such a perspective.
		Evolutionary Epistemology is the attempt to explain animal and human cognition, including science, in a Darwinian fashion.
		The theory and data of evolutionary biology and animal behavior can illuminate many of our most basic mental processes and activities: language learning, perception, social understanding, and most controversially, culture and the sharing of knowledge and beliefs.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/Areas/EE.html (456 words)

	Taking the 'vs.' out of nature vs. nurture
		This contrasts with the stereotypes of the two fields, according to which evolutionary psychologists approach culture as mere mud flaps on the eighteen-wheeler of natural selection, while cultural psychologists approach evolution as a salacious soap opera that went off the air 200,000 years ago.
		Evolutionary psychologists use these terms in their Darwinian senses: Adaptations are biological changes that became more frequent among humans because they contributed to reproductive success over millions of years in the ancestral environment.
		Cultural psychologists, however, often use a looser definition of adaptation to mean changes in values, practices and institutions that proved useful in particular social, historical or ecological contexts.
	www.apa.org /monitor/nov04/nature.html (1019 words)

	Evolutionary Psychology
		Evolutionary psychologists (EP) are interested in studying the evolved cognitive structure of the mind.
		Proximate or immediate causes are the immediate factors responsible for a particular response, such as internal physiology, previous experience, conditions in the environment, etc. Although the mechanisms and decision processes they study are proximate, evolutionary psychologists believe these mechanisms were shaped by natural selection.
		Evolutionary psychologists are interested in studying psychological mechanisms that are universal, hence having little or no genetic differences among individuals.
	www.sfu.ca /~janicki/defn.htm (794 words)

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		When describing evolutionary function, however, sociobiologists tend to interpret ``X does Y in order to Z'' to mean that ``X wants to do Z and therefore does Y.'' This psychological attribution is not necessary to explain altruism-all that is required is that people display altruism to their kin more than to non-kin.
		Evolutionary psychology may explain why people prefer not to eat feces, but cannot explain why some vegetarians are just as disgusted at the thought of eating meat as they are at the thought of eating feces.
		Evolutionary psychology also rests on two large assumptions: that we know about the conditions under which early humans lived, and that norms of reaction for humans are flat, an assumption which there is no reason to believe.
	www.rso.cornell.edu /mbb/journal/szabo.html (3586 words)

	Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
		Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind.
		As a result, social psychologists are disappointed unless they find a phenomenon "that would surprise their grandmothers", and cognitive psychologists spend more time studying how we solve problems we are bad at, like learning math or playing chess, than ones we are good at.
		Evolutionary psychology can be thought of as the application of adaptationist logic to the study of the architecture of the human mind.
	www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep/primer.html (13222 words)

	Chapter 1
		In addition to its pervasive influence upon popular science, evolutionary thought is experiencing a resurgence in the social sciences, despite the connection between Social Darwinism and genocide.
		Evolutionary psychology teaches exactly the opposite, that man’s behavior is predetermined by the overriding need to preserve his genes.
		Just as Darwin compared human and animal anatomy, so the evolutionary psychologists compare human behavior with that of primates, birds, and even insects to find profound evidence that man’s behavior is an evolutionary construct.
	www.bible411.com /evolution/index.htm (650 words)

	Do evolutionary psychologists think that everything is an adaptation?
		Evolutionary adaptation is a special and onerous concept that should not be used unnecessarily, and an effect should not be called a function unless it is clearly produced by design and not by chance.
		For evolutionary psychologists, the brass ring often involves identifying a new psychological adaptation.
		In my experience, the critiques of functional hypotheses by evolutionary psychologists are far more incisive than those of researchers with less experience in the field.
	www.anth.ucsb.edu /projects/human/epfaq/everything.html (621 words)

	Anti-EP
		This convergence aims at the understanding in terms of 'computations' and 'information processing' of a variety of behaviors, ranging from perception, cognitive functioning (Cosmides and Tooby, 1994) to sex and mating behavior (Symons, 1979), and several social psychological phenomena (Simpson and Kenrick, 1997).
		One would expect that evolutionary psychologists would give a clear exposé about what type of animal is involved and how reason comes about.
		There are quite a few indications that manipulative skills, acted out in concert with other members of the species who carried out comparable movements, contribute probably to the specification of neural structures, ontogenetically, but phylogenetically as well (Lock and Peters, 1996).
	www.badanco.com /new_page_3.htm (4648 words)

	Center for Evolutionary Psychology
		Results reported here support the evolutionary psychological claims that the human mind has mechanisms designed to (1) identify potential siblings in the social environment, and (2) inhibit sexual desire toward them -- an outcome that also shapes moral judgments relating to sibling incest.
		The nature of human rationality Whether selection pressures identified by evolutionary biologists can be shown to have shaped higher mental functions in humans.
		Instead, the tendency to notice and remember someone’s race may be a changeable byproduct of brain mechanisms that evolved for another reason: to detect shifting coalitions and alliances.
	www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep (843 words)

	Evolutionary developmental psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evolutionary developmental psychology, (or EDP), is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development.
		All evolutionarily-influenced characteristics develop, and this requires examining not only the functioning of these characteristics in adults but also their ontogeny.
		In: Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development, B. Ellis and D. Bjorklund (Eds.), chapter 2, pp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_psychology (455 words)

	Skeptic: The Magazine: Featured Article
		According to Buller, evolutionary psychologists think that we are “a legion of idiots savants” who struggle to get by like “Fred and Wilma Flintstone” dumped out of a time machine into modern suburbia.
		Evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margot Wilson have spent over two decades studying the nature of nurturing from an evolutionary viewpoint.
		Finally, it describes the results of four experiments that pitted the two against each other and found “the belief hypothesis is not well supported.”23 Like the Cinderella Effect, the sex difference in jealousy has been confirmed by other researchers, in different countries, applying various experimental designs and statistical methods to a number of independent datasets.
	www.skeptic.com /the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n01_here_to_stay.html (2588 words)

	Gene Expression: Chris against the evolutionary psychologists....
		I added the "trademark" superscript because Chris is assailing the paradigm put forward by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
		In other words, a rejection of EP as bad science does not imply that by default the tabula rasa and its cousins as null hypotheses which must be accepted.
		Addendum: If you are curious, my skepticism with Tooby and Cosmides model emerges from my concerns about the plausibility of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA) and the concomitant prevelance of monomorphism in relation to complex behavorial adaptations.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/003812.html (215 words)

	David J. Buller's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He challenges evolutionary psychologists to reexamine which of their theoretical commitments are important and why.
		He disentangles convictions born of everyday intuition from the thinking and evidence that are necessary for a scientific understanding of human cognition and behavior in an evolutionary perspective.
		The evolutionary psychology program represented by Pinker, Cosmides, and their allies has already been the target of impressive theoretical discussion, but this has focused mostly on the assumptions they make about evolutionary theory and human paleobiology.
	www.niu.edu /phil/~buller/adaptingminds.shtml (791 words)

	Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE
		She is a respected psychologist, recently elected as president of the American Psychological Association, and someone with no theoretical axe to grind.
		Ten years ago, the evolutionary psychologist and sex difference researcher, David Geary, reviewed the literature that was available at that time.
		These psychologists, Steve's and my colleagues, looked at the same number of publications and thought, "good productivity" when the name was male, and "less good productivity" when the name was female.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html (12347 words)

	NPR : EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
		Talk of the Nation, March 4, 1999 · GUESTS: BARBARA EHRENREICH Throughout this century, advocates of women's liberation have confronted a persistent notion: that women occupy an inferior place in society simply as a result of their biology.
		In recent years, evolutionary psychologists claimed that women have evolved physically and psychologically to be weaker, less assertive, and monogamous, while men are naturally stronger, aggressive, and promiscuous.
		Join Ray Suarez and guests for a look at evolutionary psychology, and the new findings that challenge its assumptions.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1046395 (174 words)

	Evolutionary psychology - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Evolutionary psychology is a rapidly emerging approach to psychology guided by the principles of modern evolutionary biology.
		It is not a research method or style of therapy, but an intellectual perspective from which to approach all of psychology.
		The Evolutionary Psychology Category in the Open Directory Project
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Evolutionary_psychologists (198 words)

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