The wolf will live with the lamb

Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan:40:e42. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000637.

Abstract

Maestripieri et al. pit evolutionary psychology against social psychological and economic perspectives in a winner-take-all empirical battle. In doing so, they risk positioning evolutionary psychology as an antagonistic subdisciplinary enterprise. We worry that such a framing may exacerbate tensions between "competing" scientific perspectives and limit evolutionary psychology's potential to serve as a unifying core theory.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bias
  • Biological Evolution
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Psychology
  • Psychology, Social*
  • Sheep
  • Wolves*