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Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration
Evolutionary psychology has seen the majority of its success exploring adaptive features of the mind believed to be ubiquitous across our species. This has given rise to the belief that the adaptationist approach has little to offer the field of differential psychology, which concerns itself exclusi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24065949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00655 |
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description | Evolutionary psychology has seen the majority of its success exploring adaptive features of the mind believed to be ubiquitous across our species. This has given rise to the belief that the adaptationist approach has little to offer the field of differential psychology, which concerns itself exclusively with the ways in which individuals systematically differ. By framing the historical origins of both disciplines, and exploring the means through which they each address the unique challenges of psychological description and explanation, the present article identifies the conceptual and theoretical problems that have kept differential psychology isolated not only from evolutionary psychology, but from explanatory approaches in general. Paying special attention to these conceptual problems, the authors review how these difficulties are being overcome by contemporary evolutionary research, and offer instructive suggestions concerning how differential researchers (and others) can best build upon these innovations. |
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spelling | pubmed-37798042013-09-24 Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration Marsh, Tim Boag, Simon Front Psychol Psychology Evolutionary psychology has seen the majority of its success exploring adaptive features of the mind believed to be ubiquitous across our species. This has given rise to the belief that the adaptationist approach has little to offer the field of differential psychology, which concerns itself exclusively with the ways in which individuals systematically differ. By framing the historical origins of both disciplines, and exploring the means through which they each address the unique challenges of psychological description and explanation, the present article identifies the conceptual and theoretical problems that have kept differential psychology isolated not only from evolutionary psychology, but from explanatory approaches in general. Paying special attention to these conceptual problems, the authors review how these difficulties are being overcome by contemporary evolutionary research, and offer instructive suggestions concerning how differential researchers (and others) can best build upon these innovations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3779804/ /pubmed/24065949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00655 Text en Copyright © 2013 Marsh and Boag. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Marsh, Tim Boag, Simon Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title | Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title_full | Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title_fullStr | Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title_full_unstemmed | Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title_short | Evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
title_sort | evolutionary and differential psychology: conceptual conflicts and the path to integration |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24065949 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00655 |
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