Psychology · Evolutionary & Biological Psychology

Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology

A topic within Evolutionary & Biological Psychology, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper2000

The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology

Jaak Panksepp & Jules B. Panksepp

Lists seven recurring methodological failures in evolutionary psychology, from unfalsifiable just-so stories to neglect of actual brain mechanisms, arguing the field too often substitutes narrative plausibility for evidence.

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Book2005

Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature

David J. Buller

A book-length critique arguing that popular evolutionary psychology's massively modular mind and Pleistocene-specific adaptations rest on weaker evidence than the field's public confidence suggests.

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The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology

Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature

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