Evolutionary psychology is still largely confined to the theoretical and suffers a lot from retrospective curve fitting[0] (for the current state of the field).

Evolutionary psychology is still largely confined to the theoretical and suffers a lot from retrospective curve fitting[0] (for the current state of the field). So it's ironic you're accusing the current generation of being blinded by feelings There's a lot, of less junk research on the importance of altruism in human society that seem to present the opposite conclusions (disregarding the false dichotomy between being "nice" and confidence etc) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Recept... [1] http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341065.001.0001/acprof-9780195341065 http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/978... (sci-hub if you don't have acedemic access)