Evolutionary psychology's emotional foundation is simply respect for our ancestors and gratitude for their legacy.
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Once you introduce emotional foundations, what happens when the science turns up a fact that happens to be dissonant with those emotional foundations? What if there are alternative facts that would sound even better according to those emotional foundations?
Then you need an emotional update, analogous to a cognitive update. A different way to map the science's (non-intuitive) content onto one's values, concerns, and motives.
