国外关于进化心理学的研究

进化心理学是近年在西方心理学中出现的一种新的研究取向，目前仍没有一个明确的概念和系统的理论。其基本主张是：过去是理解心理机制的关键；功能分析是理解心理机制的主要途径；心理机制是在解决问题的过程中演化形成的模块性是心理机制整体组织的特性；人的行为是心理机制和环境互动作用的结果。进化心理学从诞生之日起，就引起了各种各样的争议，赞成者认为：①心理学会成为更多的达尔文主义的理论建构；②进化心理学将使心理学走向统一；③进化心理学向传统社会科学提出了挑战。反对者认为：①进化心理学是一种不成熟的科学；②进化心理学是一种貌似科学的研究取向。

Foreign Research on Evolutionary Psychology

evolutionary psychology is a new research approach emerged in the Western psychology in recent years, it hasn't a clear concept and systematic theory at present. Its basic principle is:the past is the key to understand the present; functional analysis is the way to understand the mental mechanisms; the mental mechanisms evolved during the course of solving problems; the modularity is the character of mental mechanisms;the human behavior is the outcome of the interaction between mental mechanisms and environment. After the birth of evolutionary psychology, it has given rise to many kinds of controversies, these people who agree it think that: (1) psychology is bound to become more Darwinian theoretical construct; (2) evolutionary psychology will integrate psychology;(3) evolutionary psychology challenges the theory of blank slate and mechanical determinism in the traditional social sciences; The people who against it think that :(1) evolutionary psychology is not a mature science;(2) evolutionary psychology is one approach which looks like scientific.