Comment by daveguy
2 days ago
I'm wondering how someone knows the size of the field of evolutionary psychology and what it should be instead of what it is so well that they feel no evidence is necessary. Are you in the field yourself? Or do you have questions about evolution in general? Or none of the above?
Just cut out everybody who is studying "sexual selection" and I think the field is way healthier. Weird that so many evo psych scholars of a certain persuasion are fixated on that. I have a theory, but it veers into armchair non-evolutionary psychology, and it's not very nice.
Evolutionary psychology is highly speculative and is widely known to be full of questionable results.
So much so that there's a wikipedia page for how bad it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_ps...
The SEP page is a slightly more rigorous take, though unlike Wikipedia it is clearly primarily authored by one person, a philosopher of biology who I don't know much about. Still, I think it's a fair and detailed overview of the field, from a methodological perspective.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/