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  2. Apes and Angels: Adaptationism Versus Panglossianism
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Abstract

The “straw man” prior expectation of the dominant social psychology paradigm is that humans should behave with perfect rationality and high ethical standards. The more modest claim of evolutionary psychologists is that humans have evolved specific adaptations for adaptive problems that were reliably present in the ancestral environment. Outside that restricted range of problems, one should not expect optimal behavior.
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Response or Comment
Identifier(s)
10.1017/S0140525X04290082
Publication Date
2004-06-01
Publication Title
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume
27
Issue
3
First Page
334
Last Page
335
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Community
Department of Psychological Sciences
Recommended Citation

Figueredo, A. J., Landau, M. J., & Sefcek, J. A. (2004). Apes and angels: Adaptationism versus Panglossianism [Peer commentary on "Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition," by J. I. Krueger & D. C. Funder]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(3), 334-335. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X04290082
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Figueredo, A., Landau, M., & Sefcek, J. (2004). Apes and Angels: Adaptationism Versus Panglossianism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X04290082
Figueredo, Aurelio, Mark Landau, and Jon Sefcek. 2004. “Apes and Angels: Adaptationism Versus Panglossianism”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X04290082.
Figueredo, A., M. Landau, and J. Sefcek. Apes and Angels: Adaptationism Versus Panglossianism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1 June 2004, doi:10.1017/S0140525X04290082.