Abstract
Putting the theory before the data: is "massive modularity" a necessary foundation of evolutionary psychology?
Highlights
In this volume, Burke (2014) makes a number of arguments for why evolutionary approaches have failed to penetrate the rest of the field of psychology
In 2013, I was fortunate to attend a talk by John Richer at the International Society for Human Ethology’s Summer Institute, who argued that there is much to be gained from applying the ethological methodology of observation and documentation to clinical psychology settings
Rozin argues that social psychology, in its rush to model itself on more established lines of research, such as biology and cognitive science, has skipped these important stages of observation and description, which he considers so critical to the development of a young discipline
Summary
In this volume, Burke (2014) makes a number of arguments for why evolutionary approaches have failed to penetrate the rest of the field of psychology (what Burke refers to as “mainstream” psychology). A comparison is made to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection which, he argues, was the result of a large body of observation, description and documentation that took place before the formalization of foundational principles.
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