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That sounds like the sort of "just so" story that plagues evo psych[0]. Is there any way to disprove it? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story https
by gaganyaan 4y ago
That sounds like the sort of "just so" story that plagues evo psych[0]. Is there any way to disprove it?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
- belltaco 4y agoThere is a bunch of science behind it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667013
- eesmith 4y agogaganyaan, see also the followup where the presented citations doesn't support the claim for evolutionary benefit. See also my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679767 showing the 1975 hypothesis could not be validated in a 1979 paper, and how even at the time it was "difficult to seriously entertain the notion" Hess proposed. See also the thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667066 where one of belltaco's citations actually demonstrates that total vertical eye aperture - not pupil size - is the biggest predictor of mental state. Pupil size wasn't even considered, but the remaining variance is too small for pupil size to be a significant predictor. Total aperture is even easier to see than pupil size. In other words, there's a bunch of citations, but no convincing support presented for the evolutionary hypothesis. Rather like the "just so" stories of evo psych.