Evolutionaire psychologie. Het reductionisme van een genenverhaal
Auteurs
Veronica Vasterling
Samenvatting
There are several reasons why gender theorists
should start paying attention to evolutionary
psychology. First, gender and sexuality
play an important role in the explanatory
model drawn up by evolutionary psychology.
Second, over the past decade evolutionary
psychology has become a popular and respected
branch of research. Its articles are published
ilogical Inquiry and American Psychologist, and
the science sections of quality newspapers
regularly report on its research. Third, there
is a growing number of feminist advocates
whose critique of sexist reasoning and introduction
of new gender sensitive approaches
has brought significant improvements to the
theory and research of evolutionary psychology.
Finally, and most importantly, gender
theorists should put their habitual biophobia
behind them and engage with these new
fields of research in order to learn about and
be able to critically assess the implications
for conceptions and practices of gender. The
aim of the article is to make a contribution
towards that end by outlining the key features
of evolutionary psychology, followed by an
overview of the criticism it has generated over
the past ten years. Despite the wide range of
topics and variety of disciplines contributing
to it, the criticism appears to have one common
denominator: reductionism.n distinguished journals like Psycho-