Evolutionary psychology in general? Excluding how the people in the image are using it, of course. Unless I’m misunderstanding the term, it seems reasonable to consider evolution (and any other biological factors) as part of psychological analyses, from a materialist perspective
Yes. I was once feed some heinous idiocy about human brain “evolving” from the primitive collectivism to sophisticated individualism. In few hundred years apparently.
I get where that thought comes from, as we have evolved psychologically and physically. The problem with the practice of Evolutionary Psychology is it’s used in a way that tries to define human behaviour based on what our ancestors did/how they behaved in the before-times rather than how we evolved into a much more complicated and nuanced species.
This is usually done in a Darwinist-esque fashion to explain why women like certain traits or even behaviours because of the way we evolved. It’s almost like incel logic; bone structure and other ChadTM traits are peak evolution and women are psychologically wired to flock to said Chads. Hope that makes sense. There are way more detailed papers on the subject than what I can explain here. Definitely worth a look on Google Scholar.
Evolutionary psychology in general? Excluding how the people in the image are using it, of course. Unless I’m misunderstanding the term, it seems reasonable to consider evolution (and any other biological factors) as part of psychological analyses, from a materialist perspective
Afaik they use it to justify capitalism because university students are often suspicious to open malthusianism.
As in “capitalist hierarchy and exploitation is human nature”?
Yes. I was once feed some heinous idiocy about human brain “evolving” from the primitive collectivism to sophisticated individualism. In few hundred years apparently.
I guess some people think that’s how evolution works
I get where that thought comes from, as we have evolved psychologically and physically. The problem with the practice of Evolutionary Psychology is it’s used in a way that tries to define human behaviour based on what our ancestors did/how they behaved in the before-times rather than how we evolved into a much more complicated and nuanced species.
This is usually done in a Darwinist-esque fashion to explain why women like certain traits or even behaviours because of the way we evolved. It’s almost like incel logic; bone structure and other ChadTM traits are peak evolution and women are psychologically wired to flock to said Chads. Hope that makes sense. There are way more detailed papers on the subject than what I can explain here. Definitely worth a look on Google Scholar.
Yikes, that’s definitely not what I was imagining