Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 5410, Estonia.
Behav Brain Sci. 2013 Oct;36(5):482-3; discussion 503-21. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13000034. Epub 2013 Aug 29.
Although Van de Vliert presented an entertaining story containing several original observations, an implicit assumption that climate affects human society identically through the history is not realistic. If almost everything is explained by cold winters or hot summers, then nothing is explained. Ignoring rival explanations does not make the proposed theory more convincing.
尽管范德维尔特提出了一个有趣的故事,其中包含了一些原创的观察结果,但认为气候在整个历史中以相同的方式影响人类社会的隐含假设是不现实的。如果几乎所有事情都可以用寒冷的冬天或炎热的夏天来解释,那么就没有什么可以解释的了。忽视竞争对手的解释并不能使提出的理论更有说服力。