I'm a PhD student taking psych classes as my cognate. There are 2 profs in the class I'm taking and both seem apalled by evolutionary psych. Why is that? Genuinely interested. Thanks
Economists: 'People vote their pocketbooks' People: 'Yep' Sociologists: 'People vote their identities' People: 'Yep' Evolutionary psychologists: 'Also, people sometimes vote for their perceived reproductive & genetic interests' People: WHAT KIND OF CYNICAL MONSTERS ARE YOU?
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Ask them what evidence would lead them to consider a trait to be an evolved psychological adaptation. If they don't have an answer, they're biased against ev psych for ideological reasons, not scientific ones.
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I don't think that's cynical or monster-like, but I do wonder how it works. Are people assumed to have conscious awareness of their r & g interests? Or is this assumed to work "unconsciously"? (I'm -- again -- serious and curious).
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Mostly unconscious. Just psychological adaptations firing away...
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How do you explain the majority of people who don't bother to vote?
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They've realized there may be more direct ways to pursue their reproductive interests?
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Seems to derive, generally, from a resistance toward seeing all higher-order dynamics as a subset of evolutionary dynamics.
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To be fair, many people give the same outraged answer to economists.
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True, but I think that's because they disagree with the conclusion, not because they disagree with the premise. Among conservatives there's resistance to evolution, among progressives there's resistance to innate psychological traits. Combined there's lots of resistance.
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It is quite remarkable as to just how conceited people tend to be, in their thinking that humans are beyond natural influences.
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