Are you a Social Psychologist (SP)? AND Has Social Psychology created more good (e.g., gained knowledge, useful interventions, jobs) than harm (e.g., wrong knowledge, wasted time and money, unproductive jobs)?
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But evolutionary social psych is now part of social psych.
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@EliJFinkel & Baumeister's Advanced Social Psychology is about as mainstream as it gets. It has a chapter on evolutionary social psych by Jon Maner and@DouglasTKenrick. The evolutionary literature is cited in many other chapters too -
That’s fair, but when I was talking to professors about graduate school, they all told me to avoid the phrase “evolutionary psychology.” Even Baumeister, my eventual advisor, told me to avoid it because it was too divisive. Things have improved even in the past 10 years.
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As far back as 2003, the Handbook of Social Psychology had a chapter on evolutionary social psychology by
@DouglasTKenrick@joshackman@susanledlow. So what's your definition of mainstream social psych? -
Imagine this experiment: one candidate applies for a social psych job emphasizing their commitment to blank slate progressivism. The other emphasizes their commitment to an evolutionary meta-theory. Who's more likely to get the job?
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I dunno, ev approaches are pretty mainstream these days. Mainstream social psych (eg SPSP) awards, for instance, heavily feature ev people. Does this count?
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Yeah, why would you need to understand people to change society ? /S
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