Evolutionary Psychology Review Part 4
BackWhat is Evolutionary Psychology's stance on other psychological fields? Why do older men prefer younger women? What are short-term mating strategies? What are Long-Term mating strategies? Why do women wear fewer cloths when they are ovulating? Can this help you get laid in a bar? What do we find attractive about one another? Why is evolutionary psychology trying to explain everything we do in reference to reproduction? Do you believe in this or not?
Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: May 14, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Author: drewcrazy
Length: 00:03:00
Rating: 3.00
Views: 482
Tags: evolutionary evolution psychological mechanisms psychology
Video Comments:
stanceyu (May 27, 2008 at 2:32 pm)
You should read a book called The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller and see why we value art, music, sports, funny speech... etc, from the evolutionary psychology point of view.
drewcrazy (May 27, 2008 at 4:02 pm)
I've read that we value art, music, sports, etc because "if you're spending so much time on non-survival activities, you must be well off enough not to spend time on those activities." Also the creativity end comes into survival as well. Honestly, I hope their wrong it's just so shallow a look at magnificent pieces of work (ie, bethoven's symphonies). I will check it out. Thanks!
stanceyu (May 27, 2008 at 6:24 pm)
Yeah, but Geoffrey is trying to confront the old "survival of the fittest" thinking. He is trying to distinct the survival selection from sexual selection. He's trying to point out that survival value doesn't have much impact on reproduction value. Try to find that book, I'm sure you'll like it! It's not that "sterile" as other EP books out there!
taoist77 (January 26, 2008 at 4:07 pm)
'instinctivley' we only want to continue our gene chain. I think you should seperate instinctive behaviour from conditioned behaviour.
emphaticapathy (October 20, 2007 at 7:48 pm)
Your dismissal of evolutionary psychology as lacking 'values' can actually be explained in terms of evolutionary psychology. Evolution favoured those who placed value on existence and found an intrinsic meaning in life, since (obviously) those who didn't find meaning in existence wouldn't be around long (I'm not suggesting the process was at all direct, but hopefully you'll understand what i'm getting at).
MysteriousMaskMan (July 8, 2007 at 11:57 am)
You are making an astounding amount of misinterpretations on Evolutionary Psychology.
The first one is that you think that Evolutionary Psychology revealing our innate behavioural inclinations equates with giving license to freely exercise our selfish instincts. This is a foolish misinterpretation.
The first one is that you think that Evolutionary Psychology revealing our innate behavioural inclinations equates with giving license to freely exercise our selfish instincts. This is a foolish misinterpretation.
MysteriousMaskMan (July 8, 2007 at 11:59 am)
Oops I should post it in the first video of this series.Please remove it. Thank you.
pithier (September 8, 2007 at 8:53 pm)
For example rape exists because it is in the evolutionary interests of males to rape women when their other prospects for reproduction are slim to none. No one "ought" to rape, but we have a conflict between the evolutionary needs of the lonley male and the female.
drewcrazy (July 8, 2007 at 9:21 pm)
Actually buddy, it's the most obvious flaw! Evoltionary psychology will not explain the world away. It suggests many things, as I mentioned, that are impractical. What you "ought" to do in evotionary psychology is too far away from what we actually do. It is a new field and understandable has it's many flaws as do other schools of psychology.
pithier (September 8, 2007 at 8:52 pm)
The fact there is a disconnect between what we "ought" to do and our evolutionary drives often can be explained by a conflict between say your best evolutionary behavior and how the larger society or other individuals would prefer you to behave, given their evolutionary interests.