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Developing Evolutionary Psychology: Commentary on Narvaez et al. (2022)
Ist Teil von
The American psychologist, 2022-09, Vol.77 (6), p.781-783
Ort / Verlag
Washington: American Psychological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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APA PsycARTICLES
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Narvaez et al. (2022), in their article "Evolving Evolutionary Psychology," argue that mainstream evolutionary psychology is based on misguided neo-Darwinian adaptationist thinking and an antiquated computationalist, "mind-as-computer" framework and offer their own developmentally informed theory as an alternative. While applauding Narvaez et al. for promoting the role of development in evolutionary explication and as a potential metatheory for psychology, we point out that contemporary evolutionary-developmental accounts address the shortcomings of mainstream evolutionary psychology they describe, while maintaining an adaptationist perspective that includes a central role of evolved, domain-specific information-processing mechanisms.