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The wolf will live with the lamb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2017

Richard Ronay  and
Joshua M. Tybur
Richard Ronay
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. r.ronay@vu.nl j.m.tybur@vu.nl http://www.richardronay.com http://www.joshtybur.com
Joshua M. Tybur
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. r.ronay@vu.nl j.m.tybur@vu.nl http://www.richardronay.com http://www.joshtybur.com
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Abstract

Maestripieri et al. pit evolutionary psychology against social psychological and economic perspectives in a winner-take-all empirical battle. In doing so, they risk positioning evolutionary psychology as an antagonistic subdisciplinary enterprise. We worry that such a framing may exacerbate tensions between “competing” scientific perspectives and limit evolutionary psychology's potential to serve as a unifying core theory.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e42
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