Who do """"""""""intellectuals""""""""""" hate ev psych so much?

Who do """"""""""intellectuals""""""""""" hate ev psych so much?

Is it because it makes their bullshit continental freudian jungian marxist pomo memes about human behaviour superfluous?

Do you know who respects ev psychology? pseuds like you. Not even scientists respect ev. psych

Evolutionary Psychology is about as Satanic an idea can be without explicitly stating so.

please elaborate

my two favourite bits of Psych at uni were evo and psychoanalysis

have I outed myself as a pseud in this case?

No, tryhards just prefer 'deep' theories to correct ones and they get mad when their mystery gets explained away

Evo psych is unfalsifiable bullshit. Everything people do cannot be put down to biological drives, and you certainly can't prove that they are 90% of the time.

It's pseudoscientific conjecture based on popsci-tier unexamined assumptions about how evolution works

literally yes

>Evo psych is unfalsifiable bullshit.

If evo psych is unfalsifiable bullshit is so is evolution itself.

Because the people who shill ev psych the most are pseuds who have no proper formation in biology. It's like new agers taking about quantum physics.

Why would you ask this question on a humanities board?

And yes, that is one reason.

The other, is that many pleb researchers have tried to find adaptive reasons for all sorts of trivial phenomena, then sold their theory to the press, either before publishing or failing to publish at all.

The bad reputation of evo psych is largely due to the pop science snd Darwinian just-so stories perpetuated by media institutions and pleb researchers.

But yes, it reduces aspects of the apparent complexity and mystery of human behaviour, to rather basic adaptive drives and therefore humanities plebs often reject it, while remaining ignorant of it.

feminists literally do hate campaigns on evo psych researchers

I'd say yes

Problem with evo psych is that it isn't deep enough.

They think distinctive human behavior somehow originates in the African savannah, which has to be some kind of methodological joke on their part, considering our brain structure is probably 100 million years older than that.

>They think distinctive human behavior somehow originates in the African savannah,

Here's a perfect example of somebody who is ignorant of evolutionary psychology, yet dismisses it.

I don't dismiss it at all. I'm saying it's not expansive enough.

I apologise and shall amend my commentary.

>Here's a perfect example of somebody who is ignorant of evolutionary psychology.

But, indulge me, how would it go about expanding its scope?

so many popperian retards itt

Intellectuals are far more committed to politics and idealism than truth. The logical consequences of Evo Psych, and really Evolution in general- things like sexual dimorphism and racial differences- are swept under the rug out of political necessity. Evolution is the crown Jewel of biological science, the foundation of all the sciences of human interaction, but it absolutely destroy's the intellectual's liberal/marxian/socialist/equality based world view.

Evolution's been demonstrated by observation of wild and laboratory populations.

>things like sexual dimorphism and racial differences

aka the pet interests of /pol/ (aka real objective scientists with no obvious agenda)

not him, but just because of pol's obvious agenda doesnt mean
sexual dimorphism, facial fighting success indicators, and anthropology are 'pet interests'

theyre as central to life as anything, and I hate this, i wish it wasnt true

Talk about poisoning the well. This literally like saying vegetarianism is wrong because Hitler.

WE WUZ CAVEMEN

>Things have been demonstrated