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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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).
Mostly unconscious. Just psychological adaptations firing away...
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Interesting perspective, with IMO a high prima facie plausibility. But how does one deal with potential falsifiability / circularity problems? How does one make differential (Evo vs Non-Evo) predictions that can be empirically tested? (Feel free to refer me to EvoPsych 101 lit).
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I'll take a stab, I don't have any references, just amateur explanation from listening to evo psych profs. Whether evo vs. non-evo is irrelevant, culture is memetic evo. Everything living is evolutionary. For genetic vs. memetic, study cross cultures isolate homogenous traits.
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