The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology - Konrad Lorenz Institute

Jaak Panksepp and Jules B. Pankseppof the Classical computational theory of mind.Speaking for myself, I’m worried half to death. Infact, it seems to me, much of the field is in deepdenial; a condition to the prevalence of the pervasivegood cheer of books like PINKER’s and PLOTKIN’soffers striking testimony. As usual, the characteristicmechanism of denial is suppression.” We expectto receive no less for the critique we have provided,but do, of course, desire more. In any event, we wishthe field well.Notes1 We thank all commentators for sharing their perspectivesand trust that the thinking of some of the remaining seveninvestigators who were invited to comment on our ideashave been influenced as well (i.e., David BUSS, LedaCOSMIDES, Bobbie LOWE, Randy NESSE, Steven PINKER, JohnTOOBY and E. O. WILSON). The editors are willing toconsider sharing their comments in future issues of thisjournal.2 We typically use Evolutionary Psychology in capitals whenwe refer to the revolutionary, social-psychological versionof the discipline, and lower case when we refer to the moregeneric variety.ReferencesBadcock, C. (2000) Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction.Polity Press: Cambridge, UK.Baily, P./Davis, E. W. (1943) Effects of lesions of the periaqueductalgray matter in the cat. Proceedings of the Society forExperimental Biology and Medicine 51: 305–306.Barkley, R. A. (2001) The excecutive functions and self-regulation:An evolutionary neuropsychological perspective.Neuropsychology Review 11: 1–29.Basso, A./Sala, S. D./Farabola, M. (1987) Aphasia arisingfrom purely deep lesions. Cortex 23: 29–44.Batro, A. M. (2000) Half a Brain Is Enough: The Story of Nico.Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge UK.Bauman, M. L./Kemper, T. L. (1995) Neuroanatomical observationsof the brain in autism. In: Panksepp, J. (ed) Advancesin Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 1, Greenwich CT: JAIPress, pp. 1–26.Bechtereva, N. P./Abdullaeva, Y. G. (2000) Depth electrodesin clinical neuropsychology: neuronal activity and humancognition function. International Journal of Psychophysiology37: 11–29.Berridge, K. C. (2000) Measuring hedonic impact in animalsand infants: microstructure of affective tast reactivity patterns.Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24: 173–198.Berridge, K. C./Valenstein, E. S. (1991) What psychologicalprocess mediates feeding evoked by electrical stimulationof the alteral hypothalamus? Behavioral Neuroscience105: 3–14Bouchard, T. J. (1998) Genetic and environmental influenceson adult intelligence and special mental abilities. HumanBiology 70: 257–279.Bouchard, T. J./McGue, M./Lykken, D./ Tellegen, A. (1999)Intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness: Genetic and environmentalinfluences and personality correlates. Twin Research2: 88–98.Buchner, R. L./Corbetta, M./Schatz, J./Raichle, M. S./Petersen,S. E. (1996) Preserved speech abilities and compensationfollowing prefrontal damage. Proceedings of the nationalAcademy of Sciences 93: 1249–1253.Borod, J. C. (2000) The Neuropsychology of Emotion. OxfordUniversity Press: New York.Breitenstein, C./Van Lancker, D./Daum, I./Waters, C. H.(2001) Impaired perception of vocal emotions in Parkinson’sdisease: Influence of speech time processing and executivefunctioning. Brain and Cognition 45: 277–314.Burgdorf, J./Knutson, B./Panksepp, J./Ikemoto, S. (2001)Nucleus accumbens amphetamine microinjections unconditionallyelicit 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in rats. BehavioralNeuroscience. In Press.Burgdorf, J./Knutson, B./Panksepp, J./Shippenberg, T.(2001) Ultrasonic vocalizations index pharmacologicalaversion in adult rats. Psychopharmacology 155: 35–42.Burgdorf, J./Panksepp, J. (2001) Tickling induces reward inadolescent rats. Physiology & Behavior 72: 167–173.Carter, S./Kirkpatrick, B./Lederhendler, I. I. (eds) (1997)Neurobiology of affiliation. Annals of the New York Academyof Sciences 807. New York Academy of Sciences: NewYork.Castro-Caldas, A./Petersson, K. M./Reis, A./Stone-Lander, S./Ingvar, M. (1998) Learning to read and write during childhoodinfluences the functional organization of the adultbrain. Brain 121: 1053–1063.Charney, D. S./Nestler, E. J./Bunney, B. S. (eds) (1999) Neurobiologyof Mental Illness. Oxford University Press: NewYork.Cosmides, L./Tooby, J. (2000) Evolutionary psychology andthe Emotions. In: Lewis, M./Haviland, J. (eds) The Handbookof Emotions, 2nd edition. Guilford: New York, pp.91–116.Crosson, B./Zawacki, T./Brinson, G./Lu, L./Sadek, J. R. (1997)Models of subcortical functions in language: current status.Journal of Neurolinguistics 10(4): 277–300.Daly, M./Wilson, M. (1988) Homicide. Aldine: New York.Damasio, A. R. (1999) The Feeling of What Happens, Bodyand Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. HarcourtBrace: New York.Darwin, C. (1998) The Expression of the Emotions in Manand Animals, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press: NewYork. Originally published 1872.Dawson, G./Fisher, F. W. (eds) (1984) Human behavior andEvolution and Cognition ❘ 78 ❘ 2001, Vol. 7, No. 1