Gottfries C G, Roos B E
Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, University of Göteborg, Mölndal Hospital, Sweden.
Med Hypotheses. 1994 Nov;43(5):347-55. doi: 10.1016/0306-9877(94)90115-5.
Man's mental functions have developed unevenly. Sometime during the last millennium the muscle man was superseded by the intelligent man. The human psyche, besides intellectual capacity, includes a basic function that can be called emotional capacity. This function can be studied using the same approach as in the study of intellectual capacity. The two functions are considered to be partly independent of each other. Emotional capacity depends on the individual's genetic emotional make-up (emotional genotype) and how this inherited set of qualities has been conditioned by environmental factors (emotional phenotype). Man's emotional capacity is very little differentiated: emotionally, modern man still functions almost like Stone Age man. Intellectual capacity, however, has undergone enormous development. As emotional capacity to a large extent governs man's behaviour and intellectual capacity is the instrument he uses to reach his goals, the uneven differentiation of the mental functions may have consequences that are unfavourable to the survival of our species.
人类的心理功能发展并不均衡。在过去一千年中的某个时候，体力型的人被智能型的人所取代。人类心理除了智力能力外，还包括一种可称为情感能力的基本功能。这种功能可以用与研究智力能力相同的方法来研究。这两种功能被认为在一定程度上相互独立。情感能力取决于个体的遗传情感构成（情感基因型）以及这组遗传特质是如何受到环境因素影响的（情感表型）。人类的情感能力几乎没有分化：在情感方面，现代人的行为方式仍与石器时代的人差不多。然而，智力能力却经历了巨大的发展。由于情感能力在很大程度上支配着人的行为，而智力能力是人们实现目标所使用的工具，心理功能的不均衡分化可能会产生不利于我们这个物种生存的后果。
