Evolutionary Psychology Diana Santos （进化心理学戴安娜桑托斯）.pdfVIP

Evolutionary Psychology Controversies, Questions, Prospects, and Limitations Jaime C. Confer, Judith A. Easton, Diana S. Fleischman, Cari D. Goetz, David M. G. Lewis, Carin Perilloux, and David M. Buss University of Texas at Austin Evolutionary psychology has emerged over the past 15 Theoretical Background years as a major theoretical perspective, generating an increasing volume of empirical studies and assuming a The fundamental basis of evolutionary psychology dates larger presence within psychological science. At the same back to Darwin’s (1859) theory of natural selection. Dar- time, it has generated critiques and remains controversial win postulated that if variant traits could be inherited by among some psychologists. Some of the controversy stems offspring from parents, then those variants that aided an from hypotheses that go against traditional psychological organism’s survival and reproduction would be transmitted theories; some from empirical findings that may have dis- to future generations at greater frequencies than alterna- tives. Variants with less beneficial effects—such as those turbing implications; some from misunderstandings about the logic of evolutionary psychology; and some from rea- that hinder an organism’s ability to survive or reproduce— would not replicate because the organisms possessing them sonable scientific concerns about its underlying frame-