The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology - Konrad Lorenz Institute

Ian Pitchfordin developmental psychology, neurology, psychiatry,and primatology, particularly on theory ofmind, which has produced compelling new theoriesof autism and schizophrenia. This multi- and interdisciplinaryresearch exhibits the consilience, orconfluence of different lines of evidence, so typicalof robust scientific work (seeCORCORAN 2000 and BARON-COHEN 2000 for a summary). Itcompares extremely favourablywith that based on theneurochemical individuationof traits and disorders admiredby the PANKSEPPs, which hasAuthor’s addressIan Pitchford, Centre for PsychotherapeuticStudies, University of Sheffield, 16 ClaremontCrescent, Sheffield, S10 2TA, UK.Email ian.pitchford@scientist.comproduced so many unsatisfactory theories and treatments(VALENSTEIN 1998).Neuroevolutionary psychobiology’s reassignmentof the tabula rasa to the neocortex revivifiesCARTESIAN dualism and represents a desperate strategylikely to be extremely deleterious to scientificinvestigation. 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