Fitzgerald Carey J, Whitaker Mitchell B
Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA.
Evol Psychol. 2010 Jun 7;8(2):284-96. doi: 10.1177/147470491000800211.
The field of psychology remains a divided one. Several different sub-disciplines (e.g., developmental, cognitive, behaviorism, social, etc.) form what could be a unified scientific area. However, there is no widely accepted theory of unification. Charles Darwin once theorized that evolutionary theory would change the foundation of psychology; but over the years, evolutionary psychology has been met with hostile resistance from some of the prominent psychologists within the other sub-disciplines. Yet in recent years, all of the divided sub-disciplines of psychology have been slowly implementing evolutionary principles into their literature and research. This slow integration of evolutionary psychology into the other sub-disciplines indicates the possibility of a unified psychology with evolution as its foundation. This paper briefly reviews the literature within each major sub-discipline of psychology to show their implementation of evolutionary psychological theories, indicating the possibility of evolutionary psychology becoming the unifying paradigm upon which the entire field of psychology can be based. A call for action to continue this process is also discussed.
心理学领域仍然处于分裂状态。几个不同的子学科（如发展心理学、认知心理学、行为主义心理学、社会心理学等）构成了一个本可统一的科学领域。然而，目前还没有被广泛接受的统一理论。查尔斯·达尔文曾提出进化论会改变心理学的基础；但多年来，进化心理学遭到了其他子学科中一些杰出心理学家的强烈抵制。然而近年来，心理学中所有分裂的子学科都在慢慢地将进化原则纳入其文献和研究中。进化心理学与其他子学科的这种缓慢融合表明，有可能建立一种以进化为基础的统一心理学。本文简要回顾了心理学各主要子学科的文献，以展示它们对进化心理学理论的应用，这表明进化心理学有可能成为整个心理学领域得以立足的统一范式。本文还讨论了呼吁继续这一进程的行动。
