Who likes evolution? Dissociation of human evolution versus evolutionary psychology.

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ward ◽  
Matthew Wallaert ◽  
Barry Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Human Evolution

What is seen and what is not seen in the economy: An effect of our evolved psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Boyer ◽  
Michael Bang Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Developmental Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractSpecific features of our evolved cognitive architecture explain why some aspects of the economy are “seen” and others are “not seen.” Drawing from the commentaries of economists, psychologists, and other social scientists on our original proposal, we propose a more precise model of the acquisition and spread of folk-beliefs about the economy. In particular, we try to provide a clearer delimitation of the field of folk-economic beliefs (sect. R2) and to dispel possible misunderstandings of the role of variation in evolutionary psychology (sect. R3). We also comment on the difficulty of explaining folk-economic beliefs in terms of domain-general processes or biases (sect. R4), as developmental studies show how encounters with specific environments calibrate domain-specific systems (sect. R5). We offer a more detailed description of the connections between economic beliefs and political psychology (sect. R6) and of the probable causes of individual variation in that domain (sect. R7). Taken together, these arguments point to a better integration or consilience between economics and human evolution (sect. R8).

scholarly journals New thinking, innateness and inherited representation

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1599) ◽  
pp. 2234-2244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Shea
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Cognitive Evolution ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
New Thinking

The New Thinking contained in this volume rejects an Evolutionary Psychology that is committed to innate domain-specific psychological mechanisms: gene-based adaptations that are unlearnt, developmentally fixed and culturally universal. But the New Thinking does not simply deny the importance of innate psychological traits. The problem runs deeper: the concept of innateness is not suited to distinguishing between the New Thinking and Evolutionary Psychology. That points to a more serious problem with the concept of innateness as it is applied to human psychological phenotypes. This paper argues that the features of recent human evolution highlighted by the New Thinking imply that the concept of inherited representation , set out here, is a better tool for theorizing about human cognitive evolution.

Tinkering with cognitive gadgets: Cultural evolutionary psychology meets active inference

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Benjamin Badcock ◽  
Axel Constant ◽  
Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Cognitive Gadgets offers a new, convincing perspective on the origins of our distinctive cognitive faculties, coupled with a clear, innovative research program. Although we broadly endorse Heyes’ ideas, we raise some concerns about her characterisation of evolutionary psychology and the relationship between biology and culture, before discussing the potential fruits of examining cognitive gadgets through the lens of active inference.

Beyond Evolutionary Psychology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Ellis ◽  
Mark Solms
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology

Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Coward ◽  
Robert Hosfield ◽  
Matt Pope ◽  
Francis Wenban-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution
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