当代进化心理学评析

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: its development consist with the development of the contemporary science; its research stimulate the thinking about the human mind and human nature; it sets up some new research field; its research has important enlightenments to other discipline. Its limitations is: it has the tendency of hereditary determinism; its viewpoint about the modularity of mental mechanisms has some limitations; its methodology has some defects too.