Buss David M, Reeve H Kern
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Psychol Bull. 2003 Nov;129(6):848-53. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.848.
Evolutionary psychology provides a cogent metatheory for psychological science. It has furnished compelling theories of major domains of human functioning, including mating, parenting, kinship, morality, cooperation, conflict, aggression, and aesthetics. It has produced hundreds of empirical discoveries missed entirely by prior psychologists. Developmental dynamics, properly conceived, can add to the theoretical foundation of evolutionary psychology. But it has not provided alternative theories capable of explaining the many detailed empirical discoveries made by evolutionary' psychologists. Nor has it generated a comparable bounty of new empirical discoveries. By critical scientific standards--theoretical cogency, predictive accuracy, interdisciplinary consistency, and empirical harvest--modern evolutionary psychology fares well compared with alternatives.
进化心理学为心理科学提供了一个有说服力的元理论。它为人类机能的主要领域提供了令人信服的理论，包括交配、养育子女、亲属关系、道德、合作、冲突、攻击和美学。它已经产生了数百个先前心理学家完全错过的实证发现。恰当地构想发展动力学，可以为进化心理学的理论基础增添内容。但它并没有提供能够解释进化心理学家所取得的许多详细实证发现的替代理论。它也没有产生相当数量的新实证发现。按照关键的科学标准——理论说服力、预测准确性、跨学科一致性和实证成果——与其他理论相比，现代进化心理学表现出色。
