当代进化心理学评价探析

进化心理学是西方心理学中近年来出现的一种新的研究取向,它的发展既有一定的意义,同时也存在一些局限,其意义是:它的发展与当代科学发展趋势相一致;其研究促进了对人性和心理的进一步思考;它开辟了心理学的一些新的研究领域;对其它学科的研究具有重要的启发作用。进化心理学的局限是:具有遗传决定论的倾向;对心理机制模块性的看法存在着局限性;其方法论亦有一定的缺陷等等。

Exploration on the Evaluation of Contemporary Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology is a new research approach emerged in the Western psychology in recent years.The development of evolutionary psychology has some significance and it also has some limitations.Its significance is that its development consists with the development of the contemporary science,its research stimulates the thinking about the human mind and human nature,it sets up some new research fields;its research has important enlightenments to other discipline.Its limitations are that it has the tendency of hereditary determinism,its viewpoint about the modularity of mental mechanisms has some limitations and its methodology has some defects too.