Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey; College of Life Sciences, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study), Germany.
Appetite. 2016 Oct 1;105:591-5. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.06.021. Epub 2016 Jun 18.
An evolutionary psychological perspective suggests that emotions can be understood as coordinating mechanisms whose job is to regulate various psychological and physiological programs in the service of solving an adaptive problem. This paper suggests that it may also be fruitful to approach hunger from this coordinating mechanism perspective. To this end, I put forward an evolutionary task analysis of hunger, generating novel a priori hypotheses about the coordinating effects of hunger on psychological processes such as perception, attention, categorization, and memory. This approach appears empirically fruitful in that it yields a bounty of testable new hypotheses.
从进化心理学的角度来看，情绪可以被理解为协调机制，其作用是调节各种心理和生理程序，以解决适应性问题。本文提出，从这个协调机制的角度来研究饥饿感可能也是富有成效的。为此，我对饥饿感进行了进化任务分析，提出了关于饥饿感对感知、注意、分类和记忆等心理过程的协调作用的新颖的先验假设。这种方法在经验上似乎是富有成效的，因为它产生了大量可测试的新假设。
