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Originally Posted by Kelhus999
I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity amateur pop psychologist. If you think I am neglecting anyone, let me know and I will attempt to rectify things.
I think it's whole branches of psychology not just individuals that are being neglected and especially the social psych/social constructionist sorts of perspectives that are missing.
I've been reading this book
The Social Animal which deals with the experimental findings that help to shape the field and can recommend it.
I spent part of my day yesterday watching some Youtubes on ev psych and it's somewhat interesting that the biggest popularizers are E.O Wilson is an entomologist who studied ants and Peterson who is a clinical psychologist. The big takeaways I got though were that ev psych perspectives tend to come from a misunderstanding of evolutionary processes and some faulty conceptions of the mind.
But some of it really is interesting though-the stuff about child birth rates and parental sex preferences based on class is fascinating and I'm sure a whole host of other stuff. But you can take it too far too and like I said, there is always something else that will have better explanatory power