| 单词 | evolutionary psychology |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevolutionary psychology evolutionary psychology n. an approach to psychology which considers psychological characteristics and behaviour in terms of their presumed origin as advantageous functional adaptations during evolution (rather than, for example, in terms of cultural influences on behaviour); cf. sociobiology n. 2. ΚΠ 1877 C. W. Shields Final Philos. i. iv. 367 It will not be surprising if the latest evolutionary psychology of Spencer, Maudsley and Chauncey Wright shall yet find some advanced divines to champion it as the implicit teaching of Scripture. 1913 L. T. Hobhouse Devel. & Purpose Introd. p. xix It was the temptation of an empirical, and in particular of an evolutionary psychology, to explain away these higher developments of mind..and so reduce all mental phenomena as nearly as might be to the same level. 2002 J. Archer & B. Lloyd Sex & Gender (ed. 2) viii. 169 Contemporary evolutionary psychology offers a different perspective on family relationships... Hypotheses are tested by examining the contemporary social life of species whose social lives are structured in ways similar to those of our pre-agricultural forebears. < as lemmas |
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