Abstract
‘‘Evolutionary Psychology’’ (EP) is used in this Special Theme issue to denote the thought of an influential group of researchers including, among others, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, David Buss, and Steven Pinker. Their approach to evolutionary psychology (intended here as the general field of inquiry, following Rauscher and Scher 2003) is based on a specific set of assumptions. These assumptions include a commitment to adaptationism, massive modularity, speciestypicality, and the concept that human psychological mechanisms have been selected during the environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, an unspecified period during human evolution spanning the Pleistocene era (Bolhuis, Brown, Richardson, and Laland 2011; Buller 2005; Rauscher and Scher 2003; Buss 2005). Other terms have been used to refer to the same approach, such as ‘‘Santa Barbara school of evolutionary psychology’’ (Bolhuis et al. 2011; Buller 2005) and ‘‘narrow
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