进化心理学的过去和现在

进化心理学这个术语是90年代出现的，它从社会生物学演化而来，声势逐渐壮大。但它的思想起源却可以向前追溯一个多世纪。进化心理学否定了标准社会科学模式，注重对平常问题的研究。解释取向的进化心理学是比较成功的，它作为一种思想方法，已经渗透进心理学之外的许多领域，成就突出的是经济学领域。对进化心理学的批评主要集中在它非经验主义的方法上，但它仍然有巨大潜力。

The Past and Present of Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology, with a growing acknowledge of original, creative reputation, comes into being a terminology which appeared in the 1990s. It evolved from the Sociobiology. However, the origins could be traced back to more than one century ago. Evolving psychology negates the Standard Social Science Model, making a point of the research of the common problems. The explanatory project of evolutionary psychology is more successful.As a way of thought, Evolutionary psychology has been applied to the studies of many fields besides psychology,the achievement outstanding is in the realm of economics. The criticisms are mainly about it's non-empiricism method, but it still has great potential.